B    M    IDM    b7fl 


^nr^HE  undersigned  have  been  for  more  than 
-^         three  years  bringing  together  the  won- 
derful collection  of  First  Editions  of  Tenny- 
son's Works  described  in  the  pages  following. 
As  the  foundation  of  the  set  was  a  long  series 
of  volumes  purchased  from  a  private  collector 
who  had  been  interested  in  Tennyson  s  works 
for  many  years  it  is  very  doubtful  whether 
such   a   collection   could  be   brought   together 
again  in  such  a  period  of  time. 

The  set  is  offered  for  sale.  It  consists  of  yo 
vohimes  ui  red  levant  morocco  cases,  elaborately 
tooled,  together  with  i/f.  volumes  of  minor  in- 
terest and  2^1.  volumes  of  Tennysoniana,  besides 
letters,  etc.,  inserted  in  various  volumes. 
Particulars  as  to  price  on  application. 

Dodd,  Mead  &  Company, 
Fifth  Ave.  &  ssth  Street, 
New  York. 


WORKS   OF 
ALFRED,  LORD  TENNYSON 


Of    this    volume,    306    copies 
have  been  printed  of  which 
56  are  on   Large    Pa- 
per, with    two   ex- 
t  r  a    i  1 1  u  s  - 
trations. 


BIBLIOG  RAPHY 

OF     THE    FIRST    EDITIONS     IN 
BOOK  FORM  OF  THE  WORKS  OF 

THE  DESCRIPTION  OF 
A    SET    BROUGHT    TOGETHER    BY 
DODD,     MEAD      &      COMPANY 
WITH  NOTES  REFERRING  TO  ITEMS 
NOT     INCLUDED      IN       THE      SET 


NEW  YORK 
DODD,  MEAD  &  COMPANY 

M     C     M     I 


Copyright,  1901 
By  Dodd,  Mead  &  Company. 


•  •  «      «   • 


INTRODUCTION 

'T^HE  ways  of  book-collectors,  why  they  should 
spend  time  and  money  in  bringing  together 
the  first  editions  of  the  books  of  one  author  while 
those  of  another  of  equal  literary  merit  are  allowed 
to  stand  unsold  on  the  bookseller's  shelves,  are,  like 
other  vagaries  of  mankind,  oftentimes  past  under- 
standing. Coleridge,  Wordsworth  and  Byron,  surely 
a  trio  of  great  English  poets,  attract  but  few  collect- 
ors, but  the  first  editions  of  Shelley,  Keats  and  Lamb 
are  eagerly  sought  after  and  bring  constantly  increas- 
ing prices.  No  author,  all  of  whose  books  are  easily 
secured,  can  be  a  "  collector's  author."  There  must 
be  dif^culties  to  be  overcome  to  furnish  the  right 
zest  to  the  collector. 

Tennyson  is  a  "collector's  author,"  and  very  justly 
too,  as  he  was  the  last,  as  well  as  greatest,  of  the 
poets  of  his  time,  and  his  first  editions  are  big  enough 
game  for  any  hunter.  Any  collector  who  can  bring  to- 
gether a  complete  or  nearly  complete  set  of  his  writ- 
ings in  first  editions  must  have  skill,  courage  and  per- 
sistence in  the  highest    degree,  as  well  as  the  even 


ivill8249 


INTRODUCTION 


more  necessary  attribute  of  money.  The  opportunity 
is  here  offered  of  securing  at  once  a  set  of  first  edi- 
tions of  Tennyson  which  cannot  fail  to  be  the  admi- 
ration and  envy  of  even  the  most  skillful,  courageous 
and  persistent  of  book-hunters. 

First  editions  of  many  of  Tennyson's  later  books 
are  easily  secured.  After  he  had  attained  fame  his 
publishers  ran  immense  editions,  sometimes  forty  or 
fifty  thousand  copies  or  even  more  of  some  volumes, 
and  they  can,  therefore,  never  be  rare.  Such  books 
as  Tiy-csias,  The  Holy  Grail,  Ballads,  and  some  oth- 
ers, are  still  to  be  had  in  the  market  at  or  below  the 
original  publication  price.  Even  more  famous  vol- 
umes, such  as  The  Princess,  In  Menioriani  and  Idylls 
of  the  King,  while  moderately  difificult  to  secure  in 
fresh,  unread  condition,  are  still  easily  "  picked  up." 
The  earlier  volumes  of  Poems  of  1827,  1830,  1833, 
and  even  of  1842,  are  now  hard  to  come  by,  espe- 
cially in  the  original  bindings  and  uncut,  and  are 
bringing  steadily  increasing  prices. 

The  real  effort  of  the  collector,  however,  must  be 
put  forth  to  secure  the  privately  printed  volumes 
which  Tennyson,  more  than  almost  any  other  author, 
liked  to  prepare.  The  Memoir  says  "  he  always  liked 
to  see  his  poems  in  print  some  months  and  some- 
times years  before  publication,  for,  as  he  said,  '  po- 
etry looks  better,  more  convincing,  in  print.' " 

Considering  the  rarity  of  these  private  issues,  an 
especially  large  number  of  them  are  included  in  the 
set  described  in  the  succeeding  pages.  Their  issue 
being  private,  often  for  a  limited  circle  of  friends 
only,  it  is  remarkable  that  even  the  few  which  have 


INTRODUCTION 


come  upon  the  market  should  have  been  offered  for 
sale.  The  first  private  issue  of  his  early  poem  TJie 
Lover  s  Talc,  and  the  preliminary  trial  issues  of  the 
Idylls  of  the  King,  are  almost  beyond  hope  of 
securing,  although  one  of  the  latter  has  been  pur- 
chased within  a  few  years  by  a  New  York  collector 
from  the  catalogue  of  an  English  bookseller,  who  did 
not  at  all  appreciate  its  rarity  or  value.  And  many 
patient,  and  at  the  same  time  eager  collectors,  have 
found  out  that  among  rare  books  few  items  are  really 
absolutely  hopeless. 

Tennyson  more  than  any  of  his  contemporaries 
was  continually  altering  and  revising  or  adding  new 
lines  to  his  poems  after  they  were  published.  He 
also  frequently  would  restore  a  poem  after  it  had 
been  once  suppressed,  or  lines  after  they  had  been 
struck  out.  For  these  reasons  some  books,  perhaps 
most  noticeably  The  Princess,  will  be  found  repre- 
sented in  this  set  by  a  series  of  editions.  To  sup- 
ply every  volume  which  contains  such  alteration 
would  extend  the  set  beyond  the  space  likely  to  be 
allotted  to  it  by  any  other  than  the  most  exacting 
student  of  Tennyson's  works.  The  most  important 
of  them  have,  however,  been  included.  In  making 
these  additions  the  point  has  not  been  forgotten  that 
the  average  collector's  shelf  room  is  limited.  For 
this  reason  most  of  the  books  to  which  Tennyson 
contributed  a  few  lines  or  a  single  poem  have  been 
excluded.  The  fact  that  Tennyson  contributed  four 
lines  to  J  ebb's  Primer  of  Greek  Literature  makes 
that  book  a  first  edition  of  Tennyson.  It  is  not, 
however,  a  book  that  is  likely  to  interest  a  collector. 


INTRODUCTION 


It  has  been  mentioned  in  its  proper  place  in  this 
bibHography,  but  the  volume  has  not  been  included 
in  the  set.  Most  of  the  Annuals  to  which  during  his 
earlier  years  Tennyson,  in  common  with  his  contem- 
poraries, was  a  frequent  contributor,  have  been  ex- 
cluded for  the  same  reason.  An  exception  has  been 
made  only  in  the  case  of  Tlie  Tribute,  in  which  the 
"Stanzas"  there  printed  for  the  first  time  are  of  es- 
pecial interest,  being  an  early  version  of  a  part  of  one 
of  the  author's  best  known  poems,  "  Maud,"  One 
or  two  other  items  of  which  Helen  s  Tower  is  the  most 
notable,  though  containing  only  a  single  contributed 
poem,  have  been  included  on  account  of  their  rarity 
and  interest.  Several  pirated  volumes  by  Richard 
Heme  Shepherd  and  J.  Dykes  Campbell,  though  not 
actual  first  editions,  have  also  been  included. 

Collectors  refuse  to  acknowledge  appearance  in  a 
periodical  as  a  first  edition.  While  we  have  attempted 
in  our  comment  under  each  volume  to  name  those 
poems  which  did  appear  in  print  in  periodical  form 
before  they  were  collected  with  others  by  the  author, 
our  notes  in  this  respect  may  not  be  quite  complete. 
As  the  periodical  issues  quite  often  differ  from  the 
later  issue  in  book  form,  a  systematic  collection  of 
the  poems  as  they  first  appeared  could  not  fail  to 
be  of  interest  to  the  special  student  of  the  author's 
text. 

The  items  described  in  large  type,  generally  with 
collations,  are  those  included  in  the  set.  Items  men- 
tioned in  the  notes  beginning  in  each  case  with  the 
word  "  Note "  are  not  part  of  the  set  described. 
Some  of  them,  such  as  the  Annuals  and  other  books 


INTRODUCTION 


to  which  Tennyson  was  merely  a  contributor,  have 
been  purposely  excluded.  Others,  and  these  are  not 
numerous,  will  be  added  as  they  can  be  secured. 

The  collations  might  have  been  made  more  ex- 
tended. We  think,  however,  that  sufficient  data  has 
been  given  to  properly  verify  the  make-up  of  the 
book.  Blank  pages  and  blank  leaves  have  been  gen- 
erally ignored  in  the  collations.  The  new  biblio- 
graphy, we  know,  demands  a  description  of  each 
book  leaf  by  leaf,  and  every  blank  leaf  which  origi- 
nally formed  a  part  of  any  signature  of  the  book 
when  it  was  printing  ought  to  be  described  as  an 
essential  part  of  the  book.  In  modern  books,  how- 
ever, this  is  not  as  necessary  as  in  old  books,  and  we 
hope  that  the  notes  about  the  books  themselves  and 
their  contents  will  be  of  more  interest  than  a  leaf- 
by-leaf  description  of  the  volumes. 

While  an  occasional  important  variation  in  the 
texts  of  different  editions  has  been  noted,  no  effort 
has  been  made  to  point  out  all  of  these.  That,  if 
carried  out,  would  result  in  a  variorum  edition  of  the 
author's  writings,  a  magnum  opus  which  some  one 
may  some  day  prepare  and  which  will  necessarily  fill 
many  volumes. 

The  best  bibliography  of  Tennyson's  works  hith- 
erto accessible  has  been  that  which  was  prepared  by 
the  late  Richard  Heme  Shepherd,  a  most  assiduous 
student  of  Tennyson's  writings  (too  assiduous  many 
times  for  Tennyson's  own  well  feeling),  but  not  pub- 
lished until  after  his  death.  The  authoritative  bibli- 
ography will  be  that  by  Mr.  Thomas  J.  Wise,  master 
collector  along  his  chosen  lines  and  master  bibliog- 


INTRODUCTION 


rapher  of  the  modern  English  poets.  This  bibliog- 
raphy will  appear  in  one  of  the  forthcoming  volumes 
of  the  Literary  Anecdotes  of  the  Nineteenth  Century. 
We  have  been  favored  and  much  aided  in  preparing 
the  description  of  this  set  by  having  the  privilege  of 
consulting  proof  sheets  of  a  part  of  this  bibliography. 
We  have  not,  however,  had  access  to  the  complete 
material,  and  when  Mr.  Wise's  bibliography  is  printed 
we  expect  to  find  some  of  our  queries  explained, 
omissions  supplied  and  mistakes  corrected.  We  have 
also  been  aided  materially  by  Dr.  Rolfe's  very  satis- 
factory notes  found  in  the  Cambridge  Edition  of 
Tennyson's  Works  and  needless  to  say  by  the 
Memoir  of  Lord  Tennyson  by  his  son,  which  includes 
extracts  from  his  letters  and  journals. 

L.  S.  L. 


WORKS 

OF 

ALFRED,  LORD  TENNYSON 


WORKS   OF 
ALFRED,  LORD  TENNYSON 


P 


OEMS      BY     TWO 
LONDON,     1827. 
boards,  uncut. 


BROTHERS. 

i6mo,     original 


Collation:  Title,  Advertisement,  prefatory  poem,  Contents 
and  Errata,  pp.  i-xii ;  text,  pp.  1-228, 

This  volume  contains  Tennyson's  first  published 
work.  Three  brothers  actually  contributed  to  it, 
Alfred,  Charles  and  Frederick;  the  latter,  howe/er, 
was  responsible  for  only  three  or  four  poems. 
Tennyson  told  his  friend  Knowles  that  "  the  three 
brothers  bound  themselves  to  each  other  never  to  re- 
veal who  wrote  this  or  that."  After  Lord  Tenny- 
son's death  (his  brother  Charles  having  died  earlier) 
his  son  Hallam,  aided  by  the  memory  of  his  uncle 
Frederick,  then  still  living,  endeavored  to  fix  defi- 
nitely the  authorship  of  the  several  pieces. 

Of  the  one  hundred  and  three  pieces  in  the  volume 
he  ascribed  forty-two  to  Alfred,  forty-eight  to 
Charles  and  three  to  Frederick,  with  reasonable  cer- 
tainty.    Four  were  doubtfully  ascribed  to  Alfred  and 


WORKS  OF 


POEMS  BY  TWO  BROTHERS,  \9,2-]— Continued 

one  doubtfully  to  Charles,  while  another  was  begun 
by  Alfred  and  finished  by  Charles.  Concerning  the 
remaining  four  he  was  not  willing  to  express  any 
opinion. 


POEMS, 


BY  TWO   BROTHERS. 


I  HOVIHUS  £918  NII11L."—Jflir:ff(l/. 


LONDON  I 

PRtNTED  FOR  W.  SIMPKIN  AND  B.  MABSBAtt, 

ffrAnOIftIU'*HALt.-C0ORTi 

AND  i.  AND  t.  JACKSON,  LOUTH. 


MOCCCXXVII. 


The  boys — for  Alfred  at  that  time  was  only  about 
seventeen  and  Charles  a  year  older — seem  to  have 
copied  out  the  best  of  their  poems  into  a  sheep-bound 
blankbook,  which  they  carried  to  their  local  book- 
sellers, Messrs.  J.  and  J.  Jackson  of  Louth,  who 
printed  the  book,  paying  the  authors  twenty  pounds 


ALFRED,    LORD   TENNYSON 

POEMS  BY  TWO  BROTHERS,  \?>2-]— Continued 

for  the  copyright.  Of  this  sum  a  considerable  part  (the 
Memoir  says  one  half,  but  Tennyson  himself  told  J  ames 
Knowles  one  fourth)  had  to  be  taken  out  in  books. 

The  original  manuscript  of  Poems  by  Tzvo  Brothers 
was  discovered  a  few  years  ago  in  the  possession  of 
the  successors  of  the  Jacksons.  It  was  put  up  for 
sale  at  Sotheby's  and  brought  ;^48o,  being  purchased 
by  Messrs.  Macmillan  &  Bowes,  booksellers,  of  Cam- 
bridge. They  expected  to  dispose  of  it  to  the 
College  authorities,  but  for  some  reason,  probably  lack 
of  funds,  this  was  impossible,  and  the  manuscript  was 
purchased  by  Messrs.  Dodd,  Mead  &  Company,  who 
offered  it  for  sale  in  their  catalogue  of  April,  1893, 
for  $3,5CK).  When  the  friends  of  the  College  found 
that  the  manuscript  had  actually  been  sold  abroad, 
they  bestirred  themselves  and  a  fund  was  raised  by 
subscription  for  its  repurchase.  It  is  now  in  the 
library  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 

None  of  the  poems  in  the  volume  were  ever  re- 
printed, with  Tennyson's  permission.  Some  copies 
of  Poeiiis  by  Two  Brothers  were  printed  on  large  paper. 
Except  Tennyson's  last  book,  The  Death  of  Oenone, 
published  after  his  death,  no  first  edition  of  any  other 
book  of  his  was  ever  published  in  two  sizes. 

PROLUSIONES  ACADEMICS  PRI- 
MUS ANNUIS  DIGNAT^.  Cam- 
bridge, 1829.  8vo,  brown  levant  morocco, 
gilt  top,  uncut,  by  Tout. 

Collation:    Title,   half-title,  text,  etc.,  pp.  1-41,  with 
blank  leaf  at  end,  completing  the  signature. 

5 


WORKS  OF 


PROLUSIONES  ACADEMIC/E,  \Z2c^— Continued 

"Timbuctoo,"  the  poem  which  obtained  the  Chan- 
cellor's Medal  at  the  Cambridge  Commencement, 
1829,  is  the  first  piece  in  the  volume,  filling  pages  5 


PROLUSIONES 
ACADEMICiE 

PRiEMIIS    ANNUIS    DIGNATJE 

•T  _^ 
IN  CURIA  CANTABRIGIENSI 

HECITATiE 
COMITHS  MAXIMIS 

A.D.    U.DCCC.XXIX. 


CANTABRIGI£: 
TVPIS    ACADEHIns    KXCt7DlT 

JOANNES  SMITH. 


to  13.  An  early  mezzotint  portrait  of  Tennyson,  en- 
graved by  Sartain,  is  inserted  in  this  copy.  Laid  in 
also  is  a  very  interesting  autograph  letter  to  Met- 
calfe, the  Cambridge  printer,  relating  to  the  poem. 
This  letter  we  quote  in  full,  although  it  is  printed, 


ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

PROLUSIONES  ACADEMICyE,  \'iz^— Continued 

with  some  of  the  abbreviations  expanded,  in  the  Mem- 
oir, Vol.  I,  p.  45.     The  date  is  there  given  as  1831. 

"SOMERSBY. 

"  Sir, 

"As  you  intend  to  reprint  the  Cambridge  P.  P^ns  it  would 
seem  odd  to  leave  mine  out  tho'  for  my  own  part  I  had  much 
rather  you  had  not  thought  of  it.  Prize  poems  (without  any 
exception  even  in  favour  of  Mr.  Milman's  Belvidere)  are  not 
properly  speaking  '  Poems  '  at  all  &  ought  to  be  forgotten  as 
soon  as  recited.  I  could  have  wished  that  poor  Timbuctoo 
night  have  been  suffered  to  slide  quietly  off  with  all  its  errors 
into  forgetfulness ;  however  as  I  do  not  expect  to  turn  you 
from  your  purpose  of  republishing  the  Pe  Ps,  I  suppose  mine 
must  be  printed  along  with  them  ;  only  for  '  cones  of  Pyramids,' 
which  is  nonsense  (p.  10),  I  will  thank  you  to  substitute  'peaks 
of  Pyramids.' 

"  I  am,  Sir 

"yours  truly 

"  Alfred  Tennyson. 

"  Sunday  morng.'' 

The  correction  noted  was  made  in  all  late  reprints 
of  the  poem,  although  Tennyson  himself  never  in- 
cluded it  in  any  of  the  collected  editions  of  his 
works.  After  his  death  it  was  included  in  the  second 
edition  of  Poems  by  Tivo  Brothers. 

The  author  apparently  had  a  few  copies  of  'Tim- 
buctoo" alone  pulled  from  the  types  of  theProlusioies. 
O  f  this  separate  edition, which  certainly  follows  instead 
of  preceding  the  official  edition,  only  a  single  copy  is 
known  to  exist.  This  copy  (  which  is  now  owned  in 
the  United  States)  is  for  the  first  time  accurately 
described  by  Mr.  Wise  in  his  forthcoming  Biblio- 
graphy.    He  says  there  in  part : 


WORKS  OF 


PROLUSIONES  ACADEMICS,  i?,2q—Contif!tieJ 

"This  is  a  separate  pull  of  the  poem  alone,  without  any  of 
the  additional  matter  which  accompanied  it  in  the  Prolusiones. 
The  pamphlet  was  formed  by  taking  the  first  sheet  of  the  Pro- 
lusiones—  i6pages;  deleting  the  general  title-page,  and  setting 
the  single  word  Timbucioo  in  its  place,  forming  a  half-title 
(with  blank  reverse);  adding  to  the  separate  title  to  Timbuctoo 
the  Arms  of  the  University,  and  the  printer's  imprint:  'Printed 
by  J.  Smith,  Printer  to  the  University.  1829' — thus  forming 
a  complete  title-page.  No  alteration  of  the  pagination  was 
necessary,  the  poem  occupying  pp.  5-13  as  in  the  Prolusiones. 
Pages  14-16,  completing  the  sheet,  are  blank.  The  leaves 
(which  are  entirely  untrimmed)  measure  9>^x5^  inches.  The 
reason  why  the  poem  was  thus  separately  printed  is  not  known ; 
indeed,  the  fact  of  the  existence  of  this  separate  issue  has  never 
hitherto  been  recorded.  No  doubt  the  poet  himself  caused  a 
few  copies  to  be  so  struck  off  for  friendly  distribution." 

POEMS  CHIEFLY  LYRICAL.     London, 
1830.      i6mo,  original  boards,  uncut. 

Collation  :   Title  and  Errata,   pp.  i-iii ;  text,  pp.  i-154 ; 
advertisements,  i  leaf. 

This  is  Tennyson's  first  collected  volume  of  verse. 
Of  the  fifty-six  pieces  in  the  volume,  the  twenty- 
three  following  have  never  been  included  in  any  au- 
thorized edition  of  the  author's  works. 

The  "  How  "  and  the  "  Why." 

The  Burial  of  Love. 

To "  Sainted  Juliet !  dearest  name  !  " 

Song.     "!' the  glooming  light." 

Song.     "The  lintwhite  and  the  throstlecock." 

Song.     "  Every  day  hath  its  night." 

Hero  to  Leander. 

The  Mystic. 


ALFRED,   LORD    TENNYSON 

POEMS  CHIEFLY  LYRICAL,  \%z^— Continued 

The  Grasshopper. 
Love,  Pride,  and  Forgetfulness. 
Chorus,  in  an  unpublished  Drama,  written  very 
early. 


POEMS, 


CHIEFLY    LYRICAL. 


BY  ALFRED  TENNYSON. 


LONDON : 
EFFINGHAM  WII^SON,  ROYAL  EXCHANGE, 

CORD  Hill,. 

1830. 


Lost  Hope. 
The  Tears  of  Heaven. 
Love  and  Sorrow. 
To  a  Lady  Sleeping. 


WORKS  OF 


POEMS  CHIEFLY  LYRICAL,  \%2><^— Continued 

Sonnet.      "  Could  I  outwear  my   present  state 

of  woe." 
Sonnet.     "Though  Night  hath  climbed  her  peak 

of  highest  noon." 
Sonnet.     ''Shall  the  hag  Evil  die  with  child  of 

Good." 
Sonnet.     "  The  pallid   thunderstricken  sigh   for 

gain." 
Love. 

English  Warsong. 
Dualisms. 
Ot    peovTsi;.       "  All     thoughts,    all    creeds,    all 

dreams  are  true." 

Twenty-four  of  the  others  were  reprinted  in  the 
first  two-volume  edition  of  Poems  in  1842,  some  with 
alterations,  generally  slight.  One,  "The  Deserted 
House,"  was  omitted  in  the  first  four  editions,  but 
was  restored  in  the  fifth  edition,  1848,  without 
change.  Another,  "  The  Sea-Fairies, "  was  not 
reprinted  until  the  eighth  edition  of  Poems,  1853,  and 
then  with  numerous  changes.     Four  pieces. 

Nothing  will  Die, 

All  Things  will  Die, 

The  Kraken, 

We  are  Free, 
were  first  restored  in  the  1872  edition  of  the  Works. 
The  "National  Song:"  "There  is  no  land  like 
England "  was  first  reprinted  in  TJie  Foresters  in 
1882,  and  then  with  the  choruses  rewritten.  The 
two  remaining  pieces. 


ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

POEMS    CHIEFLY  LYRICAL,  xZzo— Continued 

Elegiacs, 

Supposed   Confessions   of    a   secondrate   sensi- 
tive Mind  not  in  unity  with  itself, 
were  first  reprinted  in  the  1 884  edition  of  Works.    The 
first  there  has  the  title  "  Leonine  Elegiacs." 

SONNETS  AND  FUGITIVE  PIECES, 
BY  CHARLES  TENNYSON.  Cam- 
bridge, 1830.     i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Half-title  and  title,  pp.  i-iv ;  text,  pp.  1-83. 

By  Alfred's  brother,  Charles,  who  contributed  to 
the  Poems  of  Tiuo  Brothers,  and  included  in  the  set 
on  that  account. 

This  is  a  presentation  copy,  with  inscription  in  the 
author's  autograph : 

"  William  B.  Philpot 

from  Charles  Turner 
July  28th,  1857." 

An  autograph  letter  to  Philpot,  signed  "  Charles 
Turner,"  is  inserted.  Charles  Tennyson  assumed  the 
name  of  Turner  in  1837  on  inheriting  property  from 
an  uncle,  Samuel  Turner. 

The  imprint  in  this  copy  is  in  three  lines,  "  Cam- 
bridge:/  Published  by  B.  Bridges,  Market  Hill/ 
MDCCCXXX./  "Another  copy,  probably  an  earHer 
issue,  has  two  additional  lines  inserted  after  the 
second,  "and  sold  by  John  Richardson,  91,  Royal/ 
Exchange,  London."  The  book  evidently  had  a 
slow  sale,  as  there  is  a  catalogue  of  books  published 


WORKS  OF 


SONNETS  AND  FUGITIVE    PIECES,  1^2,0— Continued 

by  Moxon,  8   pages,  dated  March,  1856,  bound  in. 
This  certainly  cannot  belong  with  the  first  edition. 

Note  :  Tennyson  contributed  three  pieces  to  The  Gem,  A  Liter- 
ary Annual,  for  1831,  as  follows  : 

A  Fragment.   "  Where  is  the  Giant  of  the  Sun,  which  stood  ?  " 
Anacreonatics.     "  With  roses  musky  breathed." 
No  More. 
These  three  pieces  were  never  reprinted  with  the  poet's  authoriza- 
tion.    They  were  included  by  Richard  Heme  Shepherd  in  1870  in 
the  collection  of  poems  printed  to  accompany    his  second  pirated 
edition  of  "  The  Lover's  Tale." 

Tennyson  also  contributed  to  two  annuals  issued  in  1832.  Friend' 
ship's  Offering  contains  a  sonnet  at  page  367  : 

"  Me  my  own  fate  to  lasting  sorrow  doometh." — 
and  the  Yorkshire  Literary  Annual  contains  a  sonnet : 

"  There  are  three  things  which  fill  my  heart  with  sighs." 
Neither  of  these  two  sonnets  was  ever  reprinted  with  Tennyson's 
permission,  though  both  were  included  in  Shepherd's  little  collection 
of  187a.     The  first  of  the  two  is  also  found  in  the  Memoir. 

POEMS.     London,     1833.      i6mo,    original 
boards,  uncut. 

Collation  :      Advertisements,  half-title,  title  and  Con- 
tents, pp.  i-viii ;  text  pp.  1-163. 

Though  dated  1833  this  volume  was  actually  pub- 
lished in  December,  1832. 

There  are  thirty  pieces  in  the  volume,  all  here 
published  for  the  first  time.  Six  of  these  were 
never  afterwards  reprinted  in  any  authorized  edition 
of  the  poet's  works.     These  are  : 

Sonnet.      "  O  beauty,  passing  beauty  !  sweetest 

Sweet ! " 
The  Hesperides. 
Song.     "  Who  can  say  ?" 


ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

POEMS,  I'&^T,— Continued 

Sonnet.     Written  on  hearing  of  the  outbreak 

of  the  Polish  Insurrection. 
O  DarHng  Room. 
To  Christopher  North. 


POEMS 


ALFRED   TENNYSON. 


LONDON: 

EDWARD   MOXON,  64,   NEW  BOND  STREET. 


klDCCCXXXIfl. 


A  seventh  poem,  "  Kate,"  was  never  reprinted  in 
any  authorized  edition  during  the  poet's  lifetime, 
but  is  found  in  the  editions  issued  in  1895  and  since. 

Of  the  others,  sixteen  were  reprinted  (all  more  or 
less  altered,  we  believe)  in  the  first  two-volume  edi- 


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POEMS,  i^'i'i— Continued 

tion    of  Poans,  1842.      Six  were  first    reprinted   in 

1872  in  the  Library  Edition  of   Works,  the  second, 

especially,  being  materially  altered.     These  six  are : 

Sonnet.      "  Mine  be  the  strength  of  spirit  fierce 

and  free." 

To .    "All  good  things  have  not  kept  aloof." 

The   first  ten  stanzas  of   the  latter  poem,    some- 
what altered,  were  reprinted  in  Selections,  1865. 
Buonaparte. 

Sonnet.     "  But  were  I  loved  as  I  desire  to  be." 
Sonnet.     On  the  result  of  the  late  Russian  in- 
vasion of  Poland. 

Sonnet  To .     "  As  when  with  downcast  eyes 

we  muse  and  brood." 
One  poem,  "  Rosalind,"  was  reprinted  for  the  first 
time  in  1884,  when  it  was  included  in  the  Works  of 
that  year. 

Note:  The  Lover's  Tale  of  1833  is  perhaps  the  rarest  and  most 
valuable  of  the  first  editions  of  Tennyson.  The  following  notes  are 
taken  from  the  proof  sheets  of  Mr.  Wise's  forthcoming  bibliography: 

"  The  poem  was  set  up  in  type  in  the  autumn  of  1832,  ac- 
companied by  the  other  thirty  pieces  which  eventually  formed 
the  contents  of  the  well-known  Poems  of  1833.  But,  before  the 
time  had  arrived  for  the  sheets  to  be  printed  off,  the  Author  had 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  his  longer  poem  stood  in  need  of 
more  thorough  revision  than  it  could  possibly  receive  within  the 
time  then  at  his  disposal.  He  therefore  detached  it  from  the 
thirty  sets  of  minor  verses,  and  held  it  back  for  publication  at 
some  future  date.  But  before  the  types  were  distributed  the 
poet  caused  six  copies  to  be  struck  off,  and  these  six  copies  he 
handed  to  Arthur  Henry  Hallam,  who  was  charged  with  the  duty 
of  delivering  them  to  the  five  favored  and  fortunate  individuals 

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POEMS,  1833 — Continued 

by  whom,  in  addition  to  himself,  it  was  Tennyson's  pleasure 
they  should  be  read.  There  is  still  extant  a  letter,  addressed  by 
Arthur  Hallam  to  a  friend  in  the  early  days  of  1833,  in  which 
the  writer  states  the  fact  that  Tennyson  had  ordered  these  six 
copies  (the  number  is  mentioned  precisely)  to  be  printed  at  his 
own  cost,  and  had  placed  them  in  his,  Hallam's,  hands  for  dis- 
tribution. Unfortunately  the  names  of  the  five  lucky  recipients 
do  not  occur,  and  no  hint  is  given  by  which  they  can  be  identi- 
fied. 

"  Of  the  six  copies  printed  three  are  known  to  be  extant  to- 
day— perhaps  as  large  a  proportion  of  the  original  number  as  we 
might  fairly  anticipate  would  be  permitted  by  circumstances  to 
survive.    The  remaining  three  are  probably  gone  beyond  recall." 

On  November  20,  1832,  Tennyson  wrote  to  Moxon,  his 
publisher : 

"After  mature  consideration,  I  have  come  to  a  resolution  of 
not  publishing  the  last  poem  in  my  little  volume,  entitled, 
'  Lover's  Tale  : '  It  is  too  full  of  faults  and  tho'  I  think  it 
might  conduce  towards  making  me  popular,  yet,  to  my  eye,  it 
spoils  the  completeness  of  the  book,  and  it  is  better  away ;  of 
course  whatever  expenses  may  have  been  incurred  in  printing 
the  above  must  devolve  on  me  solely.  The  vol.  can  end  with 
that  piece  titled  to  J.  S." 

Friendship' s  Offering  for  1S33  contains  a    sonnet  by  Tennyson  : 
"  Check  every  outflash,  every  ruder  sally." 

This  had  appeared  in  The  Englishmati's  Alagazine  for  August, 
1 83 1.  It  was  never  reprinted  in  any  authorized  edition  of  the  auth- 
or's works,  but  is  found  in  Shepherd's  collection  of  1870  and  in  the 
Memoir. 

THE  TRIBUTE.    London,  1837.    8vo,  orig- 
inal cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Title,  Preface,  list  of  subscribers,  Contents 
and  Errata,  pp.  i-xv;  text,  pp.  1-422. 

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THE  TRIBUTE,  \%z-]— Continued 

This  Annual  was  edited  by  Lord  Northampton  for 
the  benefit  of  the  family  of  the  Reverend  Edward 
Smedley.  Tennyson's  friend,  Richard  Monckton 
Milnes,  afterwards  Lord  Houghton,  promised  the 
editor  that  Tennyson  would  send  some  contribution. 
Tennyson's  reply  to  the  letter  in  which  he  was  told 
of  this  promise  is  in  part  as  follows  : 

"  Three  summers  back,  provoked  by  the  incivility  of  editors 
[of  Annuals],  I  swore  an  oath  that  I  would  never  again  have  to 
do  with  their  vapid  books,  and  I  brake  it  in  the  sweet  face  of 
Heaven  when  I  wrote  for  Lady  What's-her-name  Wortley.  But 
then  her  sister  wrote  to  Brookfield  and  said  she  (Lady  W.)  was 
beautiful,  so  I  could  not  help  it.  But  whether  the  Marquis  be 
beautiful  or  not,  I  don't  much  mind ;  if  he  be,  let  him  give  God 
thanks  and  make  no  boast.  To  write  for  people  with  prefixes 
to  their  names  is  to  milk  he-goats  ;  there  is  neither  honour  nor 
profit." 

After  putting  the  disagreeable  task  off  as  long  as 
possible  Tennyson  did  finally  send  a  contribution  to 
the  volume,  and,  as  requested,  he  made  it  longer 
than  the  "  average  length  of  '  Annual  compositions.'  " 
The  poem,  which  is  entitled  only  "Stanzas,"  fills 
pages  244  to  250. 

From  these  verses  were  afterwards  built  up  the 
long  poem  •' Maud,"  first  published  in  1855.  With 
considerable  alterations  they  form  section  IV  of  Part 
II  of  the  poem  as  found  in  the  current  editions. 

Note  :  In  the  letter  to  Lord  Houghton  quoted  above  Tennyson 
mentions  having  given  a  poem  to  Lady  Wortley  for  The  Keepsake. 
This  was  the  poem  "St.  Agnes,"  first  printed  in  The  Keepsake  for 
1837.  It  was  included  in  the  Poe7ns  of  1842  and  later  editions.  In 
the  edition  of  1855  the  title  was  altered  to  "St.  Agnes'  Eve." 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

MORTE  D'ARTHUR;  DORA;  AND 
OTHER  IDYLS.  London,  1842.  i6mo, 
sewed,  uncut. 

Collation:   Half-title,  title  and   imprint  pp.  i-iv;  text, 
pp.  1-66 ;  note  and  imprint,  pp.  67-68. 

One  of  a  very  small  private  issue  and  excessively- 
rare,  being  unknown  to  Shepherd  and  even  to  Dr. 
W.  J.  Rolfe,  to  whose  notes  in  the  Cambridge  edition 
we  are  much  indebted.  In  the  Memoir  is  this 
note: 

"  In  1843  he  had  eight  of  the  blank  verse  poems  printed  for 
his  private  use,  because  he  always  liked  to  see  his  poems  in  print 
some  months  and  sometimes  years  before  publication,  '  for,'  as 
he  said,  '  poetry  looks  better,  more  convincing,  in  print.'  " 

Eight  poems  are  contained  in  the  volume  : 

Morte  D'Arthur. 

Dora. 

The  Gardener's  Daughter  ;  or,  The  Pictures. 

Audley  Court. 

Walking  to  the  Mail. 

St.  Simeon  Stylites. 

Ulysses. 

Godiva. 
The  text  of  this  "trial  book"  was  printed  from 
the  same  types  as  the  collected  edition  of  the  au- 
thor's poems  published  later  in  the  same  year. 

Neither  the  preliminary  lines,  "The  Epic,"  pre- 
fixed to  "  Morte  D'Arthur,"  nor  the  supplementary 
verses  beginning 

"  Here  ended  Hall,  and  our  last  light,  that  long 
Had  wink'd  and  threaten'd  darkness,  flared  and  fell," 

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MORTE  D'ARTHUR,  1-6:^2— Contimied 

are  found  in  this  private   issue.     Nor  are  the  four 
lines  printed  in  italics  at  the  beginning  of  "  Godiva," 

"  I  waited  for  the  train  at  Coventry," 
found  here.     These  additions  were  apparently  made 


MORTE    D'ARTHUR; 
DORA; 

AND   OTHER  IDYLS. 


ALFRED   TENNYSON. 


LONDON: 
EDWARD   MOXON,  DOVER  STREET. 


for  the  sole  purpose  of  introducing  the  poems  less 
abruptly. 

Except  for  these  additions  the  poems  are  gener- 
ally page  for  page  with  those  of  the  published  edi- 
tion.    As  the  arrangement  is  there  quite  different, 


ALFRED,   LORD    TENNYSON 

MORTE  D'ARTHUR,  \i^2—Coittinind 

the  pagination  is  not  the  same.  The  only  other 
textual  variation  is  the  correction  of  a  misprint, 
"  running"  for  "  cunning,"  in  the  lines  of  "  Godiva  ": 

"  The  little  wide-mouth 'd  heads  upon  the  spout 
Had  cunning  eyes  to  see." 

The  explanatory  note  at  the  end  : 

"•  The  author  thinks  it  right  to  state  that  the  idyl  of  '  Dora ' 
was  suggested,  in  part,  by  one  of  Miss  Mitford's  Pastorals." 

was  altered  in  the  two-volume  edition  to  read  : 

"  The  Idyl  of  '  Dora  '  was  partly  suggested  by  one  of  Miss 
Mitford's  pastorals  ;  and  the  ballad  of  Lady  Clare,  by  the  novel 
of  '  Inheritance.' " 

POEMS.     London,  1842.    2  vols,  i6mo,  orig- 
inal boards,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Vol.  I.  Half-title,  title,  and  Contents,  pp. 
i-vii ;  half-title  and  text,  pp.  1-233  '■>  note,  p.  234 ;  adver- 
tisements, I  leaf.  Vol.  II.  Half-title,  title  and  Con- 
tents, pp.  i-vii  ;  text,  pp.  1-231  ;  note,  p.  232. 

The  first  volume  is  made  up  principally  of  pieces 
already  published  in  the  author's  earlier  volumes  of 
1830  and  1833.  Twenty-three  pieces  were  taken 
from  Poems  CJiicfiy  Lyrical,  1830,  and  sixteen  pieces 
from  Poems,  1833.  Each  section  has  half-title,  that 
of  the  latter  being  "  Poems.  (Published  1832)."  In 
addition  to  these  reprinted  pieces,  the  larger  part 
of  which  were  more  or  less  altered,  some  very  consid- 
erably, this  volume  contains  only  seven  new  pieces. 

The  poems  in  the  second  volume,  on  the  other 
hand,  are  mostly  new,  two  only  having  been  pub- 
lished   before.       "  The    Sleeping    Beauty,"    which 

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POEMS,  \i:^2—Co7ilinned 

had  appeared  as  an  independent  poem  in  Poems 
Chiefly  Lyrical,  here  forms  a  section  only  of  the  long 
poem    "The    Day    Dream,"    and    "  St.  Agnes "    is 


POEMS. 


ALFRED  TENNYSON. 


IN    TWO    VOLDMBa 

VOL.  I 


tOKDOS 1 
EDWARD    MOXON,   DOVEB    STREET. 


reprinted  from  The  Keepsake  of  1837.  The  eight 
poems  printed  privately  earlier  in  the  year  are  in  this 
second  volume  as  noted  above. 

POEMS.     Fourth  Edition.     London,  1846. 
2  vols,  i6mo,  original  cloth. 

Collation :  Vol.  I.    Half-title,  title,  and  Contents,  pp. 
i-vii;  half-title  and  text,  pp.  1-232;  note  and  imprint. 


ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

POEMS,  \%.\ii—Conthiued 

pp.  233-234;  advertisements,  i  page.  Vol.  II.  Half- 
title,  title  and  Contents,  pp.  i-vii ;  text,  pp.  1-235  ;  im- 
print, p.  236. 

The  second  edition  of  Poems,  published  in  1843, 
and  the  third  edition,  pubhshed  in  1845,  were,  gen- 
erally speaking,  simply  reprints  of  the  edition  of 
1842. 

The  note  regarding  Dora  which  appears  as  page 
232  of  Vol.  II  in  the  first  and  second  editions  is 
omitted  in  the  third  and  fourth.  There  were  prob- 
ably slight  textual  changes,  but  none,  we  believe,  of 
importance. 

This  fourth  edition  is  of  more  interest,  as  it  con- 
tains on  pages  88  to  91  of  Vol.  II  anew  poem,  "The 
Golden  Year,"  here  first  printed.  Moxon's  Catalogue, 
8  pages,  dated  July  i,  1846,  is  bound  in. 

THE  PRINCESS.     London,    1847.      i6mo, 
original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Half-title,  title  and  imprint,  pp.  i-iv ;  text, 
pp.  I- 1 64. 

The  text  of  this  first  edition  of  "The  Princess" 
differs  very  materially  from  that  of  the  current  edi- 
tions. 

THE  PRINCESS.     Second  Edition.    Lon- 
don, 1848.    i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Half-title,  title  and  dedication,  pp.  i-v  ;  text, 
pp.  I -1 64. 

This  second  edition  seems  to  have  been  printed 
from  the  types  of  the  first,  but  with  a  new  title-page 

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THE  PRINCESS,  1848— C^m/jw«.v/ 

and  a  leaf  of  dedication.  This  gives  the  book  one 
preliminary  leaf  more  than  is  found  in  the  first  edi- 
tion.    As  a  matter  of  fact,  while  the  first  signature 


THE     PRINCESS; 


A  UEDLET. 


ALFRED  TENNYSON. 


LONDON. - 
EDWARD  MOXON,  DOVER  STREET.'' 


of  the  first  edition  consists  of  two  leaves  only,  that 
of  the  second  consists  of  four,  the  first  leaf  being 
blank.  The  Dedication,  to  Henry  Lushington,  was 
omitted  in  the  recent  editions. 

Moxon's  Catalogue,  8  pages,   dated  November  i, 
1847,  ^s  bound  in. 


ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

POEMS.      Sixth  Edition.      London,  1850. 
i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation:  Half-title,  title,  and  Contents,  pp.  i-viii ; 
half-title  and  text,  pp.  1-374 ;  note  and  imprint,  pp. 
375-376. 

The  fifth  edition  of  Poems,  published  in  1848,  was 
in  one  volume.  Except  that  one  poem,  "  The 
Deserted  House,"  first  published  in  Poems,  1830,  was 
for  the  first  time  reprinted,  the  contents  are  the  same 
as  those  of  the  preceding  two-volume  editions. 

This  sixth  edition  includes,  on  pages  347  and  348, 
one  new  poem.     As  here  first  printed  it  has  only  the 

title  "To ,"  but  in  1853  a  sub-title  was  added  : 

"  After  Reading  a  Life  and  Letters."  The  poem  is 
said  to  have  been  addressed  to  Charles  Tennyson  and 
to  refer  to  Lord  Houghton's  work.  The  Life  and 
Letters  of  JoJin  Keats.  It  had  already  appeared  in 
The  Examiner  of  March  24,  1849. 

This  edition  is  also  the  last  in  which  the  poem 
"The  Skipping  Rope"  was  included.  It  had  been 
first  printed  in  the  edition  of  1842. 

IN  MEMORIAM.      London,    1850.     i6mo, 
original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Half-title,  title,  prefatory  poem,  etc. ,  pp. 
i-viii ;  text,  pp.  1-210. 

The  writing  of  "In  Memoriam"  had  been  begun 
as  far  back  as  1833,  immediately  after  the  death  of 
young  Arthur  Henry  Hallam,  to  whom  the  poem  is 
a  most  noble  tribute. 

According  to  the  Memoir  the  poem  was  first  printed 

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IN  MEMORIAM,  \%<^o— Continued 

in  May,  1850,  "and  given  to  a  few  friends."  We 
are  not  able  to  trace  this  private  issue,  if  there  were 
such.  The  poem  was  pubHshed  anonymously,  but 
the  authorship  was  soon  discovered. 


IN    MEMORIAM. 


LONDON : 
EDWARD  MOXON,  DOVERSTREET. 

1850. 


Inserted  in  this  copy  is  a  very  interesting  letter, 
which,  as  it  relates  to  Tennyson's  copy  of  Hallam's 
Remains,  may  well  be  associated  with  In  Memoriain, 
even  though  the  date  of  the  letter  is  much  later  than 
that  of  the  book.     This  letter  is  as  follows  : 


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IN  MEMORIAM,  i?,so—Contimied 

,.  gjj^  "  Dec.  1 6th,  1874. 

"  I  observe,  that  in  the  catalogue  of  your  books,  which  I 
believe  you  were  good  enough  to  send  me,  there  is  one  (No.  492) 
belonging  to  me,  '  The  Remains  of  Arthur  Hallam.' 

"  Many  years  ago  it  was  lent  by  my  sister  to  a  music-mistress. 
She  was  often  requested  to  return  it.  Since  that  time  having 
lost  sight  of  the  lady,  I  had  despaired  of  ever  again  getting  back 
my  book,  until  I  saw  it  advertized  in  your  catalogue  the  other 
day.  On  receiving  this  I  wrote  at  once  to  a  friend  of  mine  at 
Brighton  asking  her  to  call  upon  you,  &  explain  the  circum- 
stances under  which  the  book  was  lost,  but  she  had  already  left 
the  piace.  Of  course  I  shall  be  very  glad  to  pay  any  expenses 
that  you  may  have  incurred  with  regard  to  this  book,  &  shall 
be  much  obliged  to  you,  if  you  will  forward  it  to  me  here. 
"  I  am  Sir, 

"  Your  obedt  Servnt, 

"  A.  Tennyson." 

THE  PRINCESS.     Third  Edition.     Lon- 
don, 1850.     i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation:   Half-title,   title,   and   dedication,  pp.   i-v ; 
text,  pp.  1-177;  imprint,  p.  178;  advertisement,  i  page. 

This  third  edition  was  in  large  part  rewritten,  some 
portions  being  omitted.  The  six  beautiful  inter- 
calary songs  were  here  printed  for  the  first  time. 
Without  titles,  they  are  known  by  their  first  lines : 

"  As  thro'  the  land  at  eve  we  went." 

"  Sweet  and  low,  sweet  and  low." 

"  The  splendor  falls  on  castle  walls.'' 

"  When  all  among  the  thundering  drums." 

"  Home  they  brought  her  warrior  dead." 

"Ask  me  no  more :  the  moon  may  draw  the  sea." 

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WORKS   OF 


THE   PRINCESS,  li'^o— Continued 

Moxon's  Catalogue,  8  pages,  dated  February,  1850, 
is  bound  in. 

Note  :  The  Manchester  Aihenamfn  Album,  published  in  Man- 
chester in  1850,  contains,  on  page  42,  a  poem,  eight  lines,  by  Tenny- 
son : 

"  Here  often,  when  a  child,  I  lay  reclined." 

These  verses  were  never  reprinted  by  Tennyson  in  any  authorized 
edition  of  his  works,  but  they  are  found  in  the  Memoir,  with  the 
title  "  Maplethorpe,"  where  it  is  stated  that  they  were  written  in 
1837  or  1838.  They  were  also  included  by  Shepherd  in  his  volume 
printed  in  1870. 

IN  MEMORIAM.     Fourth  Edition.    Lon- 
don,  1 85 1.     i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation :  Half-title,  title,  prefatory  poem,  etc.,  pp. 
i-viii ;  text,  pp.  1-211. 

No  textual  changes  were  made  in  the  second  and 
third  editions  of  In  Mcmoriam,  but  in  this  fourth 
edition  a  new  section,  sixteen  lines,  beginning : 

"  O  Sorrow,  wilt  thou  live  with  me." 
was  inserted,  following  Number  LVII  of  the  first 
edition.  Another  section,  following  Number 
XXXVIII,  was  first  added  in  the  Miniature  Edition 
of  Works,  1 87 1,  and  three  other  suppressed  sections 
are  printed  for  the  first  time  in  the  Memoir. 

Moxon's  Catalogue,  8  pages,  dated  April,  1851,  is 
bound  with  this  copy. 

POEMS.     Seventh  Edition.    London,  185 i. 
i2mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Half-title,  title,  dedicatory  poem,  and  Con- 
tents, pp.  i-x  (misnumbered  xii)  ;  half-title  and  text,  pp. 
1-375  ;  note  and  imprint,  p.  376. 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

POEMS,   i9,si— Continued 

The  dedication    "  To  the  Queen,"  which  became 
the  first  poem  in  all  later  editions  of  the  author's 
works,  is  here  first  printed.      This  earliest  published 
form   includes   an   additional    stanza,   the    seventh, 
referring  to  the  Crystal  Palace  Exhibition  of  185 1, 
struck  out  in  later  editions.    This  stanza  is  as  follows : 
"She  brought  a  vast  design  to  pass, 
When  Europe  and  the  scatter'd  ends 
Of  our  fierce  world  were  mixt  as  friends 
And  brethren  in  her  halls  of  glass." 

A  still  earlier  form  of  the  poem,  differing  very 
materially  from  the  published  versions,  was  first 
printed  in  Mr.  Richard  Jones'  The  Groivth  of  the 
Idylls^  Philadelphia,  1895,  from  the  original  manu- 
script in  the  Drexel  Institute.  Three  stanzas  of  this 
version,  but  differing  slightly  in  text,  are  prefixed  to 
the  Memoir, 

This  seventh  edition  includes  four  other  pieces 
here  first  collected : 

Edwin  Morris  ;  or,  the  Lake. 

To . 

"Come not  when  I  am  dead." 
The  Eagle. 

Of  these  the  third  had  already  appeared  in  The 
Keepsake  of  the  same  year.  The  others  were  here 
first  printed. 

Tennyson  had  been  appointed  Poet  Laureate  in 
November,  1850.  This  is  the  first  edition  of  his 
works  published  after  that  event. 

Moxon's  Catalogue,  dated  April,  185 1,  8  pages,  is 
bound  in. 

27 


WORKS  OF 


THE  PRINCESS.    Fourth  Edition.     Lon- 
don, 1 85 1.    i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  ;    Half-title,  title,  and   dedication,   pp.   i-v ; 
text,  pp.  1-182. 

The  passages  referring  to  the  "  weird  seizures  " 
of  the  prince  were  first  printed  in  this  fourth  edi- 
tion. 

Note  :  Notwithstanding  Tennyson's  promise  to  himself  not  to 
contribute  to  the  Annuals,  two  poems  of  his  did  appear  in  The 
Keepsake  for  1851  : 

Stanzas.     "What  time  I  wasted  useful  hours." 
Stanzas.     "Come  not,  when  I  am  dead." 
The  first  of  these  was  never  reprinted  in  any  authorized  edition 
though  they  are  found  with   others  in  Shepherd's  little  volume  of 
1870.     The  second  was  included  in  the  seventh  edition  of  Poems, 
as  noted  above. 

ODE  ON  THE  DEATH  OFTHE  DUKE 
OF  WELLINGTON.  London,  1852.  8vo, 
brown  levant  morocco,  gilt  top,   uncut,  with 
the  original  drab  paper  cover  bound  in. 
Collation:  Half-title,  title  and  text,  pp.  1-16. 

This  "  Ode"  was  published  on  the  morning  of  the 
Duke's  funeral  and  was  probably  written  in  haste. 
It  was,  at  least,  much  altered  when  reprinted  in  1853 
and  again  somewhat  altered  when  published  in  book 
form  with  "Maud"  in  1855.  All  these  variations 
have  been  noted  in  manuscript  on  inserted  leaves  by- 
Mr.  R.  H.  Shepherd,  and  India  proof  portraits  of 
Tennyson  and  the  Duke  have  been  inserted.  Tenny- 
son is  said  to  have  received  ;^200  for  the  poem. 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

ODE  ON  THE  DEATH  OF  THE  DUKE 
OF  WELLINGTON.  Second  Edition. 
London,  1853.  8vo,  original  blue  paper  cover, 
uncut  and  unopened. 

Collation:     Half-title,  title  and  text,  1-16. 


ODE 


ON   THE   DEATH 


DUKE  OF  WELLINGTON. 


Bi  ALFRED  TENNYSON. 


tONCOH; 
EDWiKD  MOXON.  DOVEB  STHEET. 

185S. 


The  ninth  Hne  of  this  second  edition, 

"  He  died  on  Walmer's  lonely  shore," 

appears  only  in  this  edition,  having  been  suppressed 

in  the  later  version.     Shepherd  says  that  this  second 

edition  is  "  of  much  greater  rarity  than  the  first  edi- 

29 


WORKS  OF 


ODE  ON  THE  DEATH  OP^  WELLINGTON,  i?,s3—Cottiinued 

tion."  It  seems,  however,  as  if  the  "  small  remain- 
der "  he  speaks  of  had  recently  been  put  upon  the 
market. 

POEMS.     Eighth  Edition.     London,  1853. 
i2mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation :  Half-title,  title,  dedicatory  poem  and  Con- 
tents, pp.  i-xii ;  half-title  and  text  pp.  1-379;  note  and 
imprint,  p.  380. 

This  edition  includes  one  new  poem,  here  first 
published  :  "To  E.  L.,  on  his  travels  in  Greece."  It 
was  addressed  to  Edward  Lear.  Another  poem, 
"  The  Sea-Fairies,"  which  had  appeared  in  Poems 
Chiefly  Lyrical  in  1830,  was  for  the  first  time  re- 
printed in  this  eighth  edition.     The  text  was  altered. 

This  edition  is  of  especial  interest,  aside  from  these 
two  additions,  because  the  text  of  all  the  poems  in- 
cluded, here  take  on  their  final  form.  It  is  said  that 
none  of  the  poems  were  afterwards  altered  in  any  later 
edition  of  Poems  or  Works. 

Moxon's  Catalogue,  8  pages,  dated  October,  1852, 
is  bound  in. 

THE    PRINCESS.     Fifth   Edition.     Lon- 
don, 1853.      1 6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Half-title  and  dedication,  pp.  i-v ;  text,  pp. 
2-183. 

Lines  35  to  49  of  the  Prologue,  beginning 
"  '  O  miracle  of  woman,'  said  the  book," 
first  appeared  in  this  edition. 

Moxon's  Catalogue,  8  pages,  dated  October,  1852, 
is  bound  in. 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

MAUD  AND  OTHER  POEMS.  ;  London, 
1855.     i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  -.   Half-title,  title,  Contents  and  half-title,  pp. 
i-vii;  text,  pp.  1-154;  advertisement,  p.  155. 

A  portion  of  "  Maud  "  had  been  printed  under  the 
title  of  "  Stanzas  "  in  TJic  Tribute  as  early  as  1837. 
These  verses,  considerably  altered,  form  Section 
XXIV  of  the  poem  as  here  printed. 

Tennyson  himself  wrote  :  "  Sir  John  Simeon  years 
after  begged  me  to  weave  a  story  round  this  poem, 
and  so  '  Maud  *  came  into  being."  In  this  note  he 
says  the  verses  originally  appeared  in  The  Keepsake, 
but  it  was  another  Annual,  TJie  Tribute. 

A  friend  (Aubrey  de  Vere)  has  also  said,  in  refer- 
ence to  the  writing  of  "  Maud  "  : 

"  It  had  struck  him,  in  consequence,  I  think,  of  a  suggestion 
made  by  Sir  John  Simeon,  that  to  render  the  poem  intelligible, 
a  preceding  one  was  necessary.  He  wrote  it ;  the  second  poem, 
too,  required  a  predecessor ;  and  thus  the  whole  work  was  writ- 
ten, as  it  were,  backwards." 

In  "  The  Building  of  the  Idylls  "  Mr.  Wise  says 
that  there  are  copies  extant  of  an  "  ante-natal 
Maud,"  but  gives  no  description  of  the  book.  It  may 
have  been  only  a  proof-sheet  issue,  however,  such  as 
is  mentioned  by  Shepherd.  The  title  of  the  poem 
was  then  "  Maud,  or  The  Madness." 

The  other  poems  in  the  volume  besides  "  Maud  " 
are: 

The  Brook. 

The  Letters. 

Ode  on  the  Death  of  the  Duke  of  Wellington. 

The  Daisy. 

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WORKS   OF 


MAUD  AND  OTHER  POEMS,  li^S— Continued 

To  the  Rev.  F.  D.  Maurice. 

Will. 

The  Charge  of  the  Light  Brigade. 


MAUD, 


AND   OTHEB   POEMS. 


ALFRED  TONNYSON.  D.C.L.. 


POBT  LACBBATL 


LOUDON: 
EDWAED  MOXON,  DOVER  STREET. 

185S. 


"The  Charge  of  the  Light  Brigade"  here  appears 
in  book-form  for  the  first  time,  having  been  written 
on  December  2d  and  printed  first  in  the  Exatniner 
of  December  9,  1854.  It  is  here  much  altered.  The 
expression  "Some  one  had  blundered,"  which,  read 
by  Tennyson  in  the  London  Times,  was  the  inspira- 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

MAUD  AND  OTHER  POEMS,  \%S'^— Continued 

tion  and  key  of  the  poem,  and  which  occurred  twice 
in  the  Examiner  version,  was  here  struck  out  entirely. 
Ruskin  wrote  on  November  12,  1855: 

"  I  am  very  sorry  that  you  put  the  '  Some  one  had  blundered  ' 
out  of '  The  Light  Brigade.'  It  was  precisely  the  most  tragical 
line  in  the  poem.  It  is  as  true  to  its  history  as  essential  to  its 
tragedy." 

But  before  this  Tennyson  had  restored  the  Hne  in 
one  stanza,  in  a  third  version,  the  form  in  which  it  is 
found  in  later  editions.  This  version  first  saw  the 
light  in  a  separate  issue  of  the  poem  on  a  single 
quarto  sheet,  four  pages,  printed  at  Tennyson's  own 
cost  for  distribution  among  the  soldiers  before  Sebas- 
topol.  This  separate  issue  had  the  following  prefa- 
tory note,  dated  August  8,  1855. 

"  Having  heard  that  the  brave  soldiers  at  Sebastopol,  whom 
I  am  proud  to  call  my  countrymen,  have  a  liking  for  my  ballad 
on  the  charge  of  the  Light  Brigade  at  Balaclava,  I  have  ordered 
a  thousand  copies  of  it  to  be  printed  for  them.  No  writing  of 
mine  can  add  to  the  glory  they  have  acquired  in  the  Crimea,  but 
if  what  I  heard  be  true,  they  will  not  be  displeased  to  receive 
these  copies  of  the  ballad  from  me,  and  to  know  that  those  who 
sit  at  home  love  and  honour  them." 

A  long  letter  from  Tennyson  to  John  Forster,  giv- 
ing instructions  for  the  printing  of  this  separate  issue, 
is  found  on  pages  386  and  387  of  Vol.  I  of  the  Memoir. 
In  it  Tennyson  says  that  he  is  convinced  that  "this 
is  the  best  version  "  and  that  "  the  criticism  of  two  or 
three  London  friends"  induced  him  to  "spoil"  the 
poem  when  reprinting  it  with  "  Maud." 

Laid  in  this  copy  is  a  tracing  of  a  proof-sheet,  hav- 
ing corrections  by  Tennyson,  of  a  very  early  version 

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WORKS   OF 


MAUD  AND  OTHER  FOEMS,  lisS— Continued 

as  put  in  type  for  printing  in  the  Examiner.     Origi- 
nally the  lines 

"  Flashed  all  their  sabres  bare, 

Flash 'd  all  at  once  in  air  " 
read 

"  He  saw  their  sabres  bare 

Flash  all  at  once  in  air," 

and  the  last  stanza,  which  in  the  current  editions 

agrees  exactly  with  the  Examiner  text,  having  six 

lines,  in  this  proof-sheet  version  has  seven,  the  fifth 

line, 

"  No  man  was  there  afraid," 

having  been  struck  out  by  Tennyson  in  the  proof. 

The  original  of  this  proof-sheet  is  priced  by  a  New 
York  bookseller  at  one  thousand  dollars. 

MAUD  AND  OTHER  POEMS.  A  New 
Edition.  London,  1856.  i6mo,  original 
cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :    Half-title,  title,  Contents  and  half-title,  pp. 
i-vii;  text,  pp.  1-164;  advertisement,  i  page. 

Considerable  additions  were  made  to  "  Maud  "  in 
this  second  edition.  The  text  of  "  The  Charge  of 
the  Light  Brigade  "  is  that  of  the  separate  issue, 

CENONE.  [London],  1857.  i6mo,  original 
blank  glazed  paper  cover. 

Collation  :  Title,  dedication  and  text,  pp.  1-29  ;  blank, 
p.  30;  imprint,  p.  31. 

This  is  an  excessively  rare,  privately  printed  edi- 
tion of  Tennyson's  poem  "  CEnone,  "  accompanied, 

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ALFRED.   LORD   TENNYSON 

CENONE,  x^i-j— Continued 

on  pages  facing,  by  a  Latin  translation  of  the  same, 
by  Lord  Lyttleton.  A  copy  sold  for  ^^35  at  Sothe- 
by's in  1899.  The  poem  itself  first  appeared  in  1833, 
but  was  much  modified  when  it  was  reprinted  in  1842. 

Note  :  The  gradual  growth  of  the  series  of  blank  verse  poems 
into  the  Arthurian  epic  "  Idylls  of  the  King,"  is  an  interesting 
study  both  bibliographical  and  literary.  The  last  of  the  series, 
describing  the  death  of  Arthur,  was  the  first  written  and  printed.  It 
appeared  in  the  privately  printed  volume  Morte  D' Arthur  ;  Dora 
and  Other  Idylls  in  1842  as  described  on  pages  17  to  19.  In  1856 
the  author  was  writing  other  "  Idylls,"  two  of  which  were  printed  pri- 
vately in  1857  as  a  "trial  book"only,under  the  title  oi  Enid  and  Ninute ; 
or,  the  True  and  the  False,  The  second  of  these  two,  "  Nimue  " 
is  the  one  afterwards  called  "Vivien."  Of  this  earliest  edition  the 
only  copy  at  present  known  is  the  one  in  the  British  Museum. 

These  two  "  Idylls"  appear  again  in  a  second  "trial  book,"  of  which 
there  are  two  varieties,  both  with  the  title  The  True  and  the  False. 
Four  Idylls  of  the  King.  Of  each  of  these  but  a  single  copy  is 
known.  A  full  account  of  these  interesting  "trial  books,"  giving  a 
series  of  variations — for  the  text  of  all  of  them  vary — may  be  found 
in  "  The  Building  of  the  Idylls,"  by  Mr.  Thomas  J.  Wise,  in  Liter- 
ary Anecdotes  of  the  Nineteenth  Century,  Vol.  II. 

Finally  the  four  "  Idylls  "  appeared  in  1859  in  the  published  book 
with  the  title  Idylls  of  the  King. 

IDYLLS   OF  THE  KING.    London,  1859. 

i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :    Half-title,  title.  Contents,  and  half-title,  pp. 
i-vii ;  text,  pp.  1-261. 

Four  "  Idylls  "  are  included  in  this  volume,  the  text 
varying  from  the  "  trial  issues  "  in  which  they  had 
already  been  printed  but  not  published.     The  titles 
in  this  edition  are : 
Enid. 

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WORKS   OF 


IDYLLS  OF  THE  KING,  1859— O'w/iww.'^ 

Vivien. 
Elaine, 
Guinevere. 
The  title  of  "  Enid"  was  changed,  at  least  as  early 


IDYLLS  OF   THE  KING. 


ALFRED   TENNYSON.    D.C.L, 


roiT  uaaiATft. 


*Flo«  Besua  Artbunu. 


tOKDON : 
EDWARD  MOXON  *  CO.,  DOVER  STREET. 

I8S9. 


as  1872  to  "  Geraint  and  Enid"  and  the  poem  was 
divided  into  two  sections  numbered  I  and  II.  Fin- 
ally in  the  edition  of  1888  these  two  parts  were  separ- 
ated, each  forming  an  "Idyll,"  with  the  titles  "The 
Marriage  of  Geraint,"  and  "Geraint  and  Enid." 
"  Vivien "    became    "  Merhn    and    Vivien "    and 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

IDYLLS  OF  THE  KING,  iSsg— Continued 

"  Elaine  "  became  "  Launcelot  and  Elaine,"  in  the 
later  editions.  "  Guinevere,"  with  title  unchanged, 
was  put  at  the  end  of  the  series,  followed  only  by 
"The  Passing  of  Arthur." 

The  first  edition  of  the  book  consisted  of  forty 
thousand  copies,  of  which  ten  thousand  were  said  to 
have  been  sold  the  first  week  of  publication.  The 
catalogue  bound  in  is  dated  July,  1859. 

THE  SAILOR  BOY.    London,  1861.   i6mo, 
original  printed  paper  cover. 

Collation  :    Half-title,  title  and  text,  pp.  1-8. 

This  poem  was  contributed  to  T/ie  Victoria  Regia, 
A  Christinas  Miscellany,  edited  and  published  by 
Emily  Faithfull,  who  had  founded  a  printing  estab- 
lishment in  London  in  which  only  female  composi- 
tors were  employed.  Thackeray  and  James  Russell 
Lowell  were  also  contributors  to  the  volume. 

Twenty-five  copies  of  Tennyson's  poem  were 
printed  separately,  as  above.  This  separate  issue  was 
unknown  to  Shepherd  or  to  Dr.  Rolfe.  The  cover 
of  the  little  pamphlet  was  evidently  printed  from  the 
same  types  as  the  title-page,  but  is  surrounded  by  a 
border  built  up  from  printer's  ornaments.  Below 
the  border  the  words  "  25  Copies  for  the  Author's 
Use,"  were  added.  The  outside  page  of  back  cover 
has  the  same  border,  but  in  the  center  are  only  the 
words  "The  Victoria  Press."  As  printed  in  The 
Victoria  Regia  the  poem  is  not  divided  into  stanzas. 
In  this  separate  issue  it  is  printed  as  six  stanzas  of 
four  lines  each. 

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WORKS   OF 


THE  SAILOR  BOY,  i%bi— Continued 

The  poem  was  included  in  the  "  Enoch  Arden  " 
volume  in  1864,  but  it  is  there  somewhat  altered 
from  this  earliest  text. 


THE  SAILOR  BOY, 


ALFRED  TENNYSON.   D.C.L. 

Poet  Lauhiiats. 


LONDON : 

EMILY  FAITHFULL  &  CO.,  VICTORIA  PRESS. 

i86r. 


HELEN'S  TOWER.  Clandeboye,  1861. 
4to,  in  the  original  blank  green  glazed  paper 
cover. 

Collation :  7  leaves,  the  last  blank,  as  described  below. 

The  tower  which  Tennyson's  poem  commemorates 

was  erected  by  Lord  Dufferin  on  his  estate  near  Bel- 

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ALFRED,   LORD    TENNYSON 

HELEN'S  TOWER,  iZbi— Continued 

fast  in  Ireland,  in  memory  of  his  mother.  In  a  let- 
ter to  Tennyson,  dated  September  24,  1861,  printed 
in  the  Memoir,  he  says,  in  part : 

"  Now  there  is  only  one  thing  wanting  to  make  it  a  perfect 
little  gem  of  architecture  and  decoration,  and  that  is  '  a  voice.' 
It  is  now  ten  years  since  it  was  built  and  all  that  time  it  has 
stood  silent.  Yet  if  he  chose  there  is  one  person  in  the  world 
able  to  endow  it  with  this  priceless  gift,  and  by  sending  me  some 
little  short  distich  for  it  to  crown  it  for  ever  with  a  glory  it  can- 
not otherwise  obtain,  and  render  it  a  memorial  of  the  personal 
friendship  which  its  builder  felt  for  the  great  poet  of  our  age." 

In  the  letter  above  quoted  Lord  Dufferin  says  that 
in  1 86 1  the  tower  had  already  been  built  ten  years, 
and  a  careful  examination  of  the  pamphlet  of  which 
Tennyson's  verses  form  a  part,  leads  us  to  believe 
that  the  book  itself  was  printed  in  1850  or  185 1.  As 
originally  made  up  it  seems  to  have  consisted  of  four 
leaves,  the  last  blank  with  an  engraved  title,  printed 
separately  on  heavy  paper,  the  whole  enclosed  in  a 
glazed  paper  cover,  with  lining  and  fly  leaf,  back  and 
front,  of  a  gilt-starred  paper,  and  with  blank  white 
fly  leaf  at  back  and  front.  The  first  leaf  has  on  the 
recto,  printed  in  red  and  black : 

"  XXth  day  of  November  MDCCCL.  This  day  at  3  of  ye  clock 
did  I  Catherine  Hamilton  christen  this  Tower  by  ye  name  style 
and  title  of  Helen's  Tower.     Catherine  Hamilton." 

This  is  followed  by  the  names  of  thirteen  wit- 
nesses. 

Page  2  is  blank.  Pages  3  to  5  are  filled  by  the 
verses  written  by  Lord  Dufferin's  mother  and  given  to 
him  when  he  became  of  age.  These  verses  are  dated 
at  end  "June  21st,  1847."    Pages 6,  7  and  8  were  blank. 

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HELEN'S  TOWEK,  i^di—ContiniwJ 

On  receipt  of  Tennyson's  verses  a  new  leaf  seems  to 
have  been  printed.  It  contains  this  inscription  on  recto: 

"On  Wednesday,  October  23,  1861,  Helen's  Tower  was  fin- 
ished, and  the  flag  hoisted  by  us." 

This  is  signed  by  Helen  McDonnell  and  Harriot 
Hamilton.  Tennyson's  verses  are  on  verso  of  this 
leaf.  The  blank  leaf  at  end,  pages  7  and  8  of  the  or- 
iginal pamphlet,  was  cut  out,  and  on  the  stub  which 
was  left  this  new  leaf  was  mounted,  forming  pages  7 
and  8  of  the  present  book. 

Again  in  1870  Lord  Dufferin  had  still  a  new  leaf 
printed.  This  contains  a  poem,  "  Helen's  Tower," 
by  Robert  Browning,  dated  April  26,  1870.  This  is 
printed  on  the  recto  of  the  first  leaf  of  a  sheet  of  two 
leaves,  pages  2  to  4  of  which  are  blank.  These  two 
leaves  were  inserted  by  gumming  them  upon  the  leaf 
containing  the  Tennyson  poem. 

A  copy  of  Helen  s  Toiuer,  apparently  lacking  the 
last  leaf  containing  Browning's  poem,  sold  at 
Sotheby's  in  1900  for  ^56.  Tennyson's  poem  was 
first  reprinted  by  him  in  the  "  Teresias"  volume  in 
1885,  though  it  had  been  printed  in  Good  Words  in 
January,  1884,  with  a  description  of  the  tower  by 
Charles  Blatherwick. 

ODE  FOR  THE  OPENING  OF  THE 
INTERNATIONAL  EXHIBITION. 
London,  1862.  i6mo,  red  levant  morocco, 
by  Riviere. 

Collation  :     Half-title,  title  and  text,  pp.  i-8. 
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ALFRED,   LORD    TENNYSON 

INTERNATIONAL  EXHIBITION  ODE,   \%ti— Continued 

This  separate  issue  of  the  "  Ode  "  was  unknown  to 
Shepherd  or  to  Dr.  Rolfe.  It  was  undoubtedly 
printed  in  a  very  small  number,  In  a  letter  dated 
only  1 86 1,  printed  in  the  Memoir,  Tennyson  says  : 


ODE 


FOR  THE  OPENING  OF 
THE  INTERNATIONAL  EXHIBITION. 


ALFRED  TENNYSON.  PL.  D.C.L 


LONDON: 

EDWARD  MOXON  *  CO.,  DOVER  STREET 

1862. 


"  I  have  half  consented  to  write  a  little  ode  on  the  opening  of 
the  International  Exhibition.  The  commissioners  prest  me  :  I 
should  never  have  volunteered  ;  for  I  hate  a  subject  given  me, 
and  still  more  if  that  subject  be  a  public  one." 

In  his  journal  his  son  states  that  the  ode  was  "  re- 
cited in  a  rolling   voice"    on  January  9,   1862.      It 

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INTERNATIONAL  EXHIBITION  ODE,  \'i,b-2— Continued 

had  probably  then  just  been  finished.  It  appeared 
in  The  Times  of  April  24,  1862,  with  the  title  "May 
the  First,  1862,"  and  in  Frascrs  Magazine  for  June, 
1862.  It  was  apparently  first  collected  in  the  six. 
volume  edition  of  Works,  1872. 

Although  this  is  the  first  separate  edition  it  is  not 
the  earliest  version.  When  the  poem  was  published 
in  Frascrs  it  was  as  part  of  an  article  on  the  Exhibi- 
tion, with  this  comment. 

"  The  Poet  Laureate's  Ode  was  happily  wedded  to  appropriate 
music  by  Prof.  Sterndale  Bennett.  By  some  great  breach  of 
faith  this  Ode  fell  into  the  all-devouring  jaws  of  the  Times, 
where  it  was  printed  so  incorrectly  that  we  think  our  readers 
will  be  glad  to  see  it  as  it  was  originally  written,  including  three 
lines  which  have  been  omitted. 

"  A  curious  misprint  was  made  by  the  Times  in  printing  this 
Ode.  The  copy  from  which  it  was  printed  was  marked  for  music, 
and  before  the  word  art  in  the  line 

•  And  shapes  and  hues  of  art  divine  ' 

a  large  P  was  affixed,  signifying  Piano.  The  word  consequently 
was  printed  Part,  neither  compositor  or  reader  having  sufficient 
astuteness  to  detect  the  error,  which  was  reproduced  in  all  the 
copies." 

Except  for  the  three  suppressed  lines : 

"  War  himself  must  make  alliance 
With  rough  Labour  and  fine  Science 
Else  he  would  but  strike  in  vain" — 

which  are  inserted  after 

"  The  works  of  peace  with  works  of  war" — 

the  text  in  Frascrs  agrees  with  that  of  the  edition  set 
to  music,  as  next  described.      There  are,  however, 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

INTERNATIONAL  EXHIBITION  ODE,  iib2—ConHmced 

several  variations  between   the  text  of  this  private 
issue  and  that  of  the  earUer  version. 
Stanza  IV  in  the  earUer  version  reads  : 

"  And  is  the  goal  so  far  away  ? 
Far,  how  far  no  man  can  say  : 
Let  us  have  our  dream  to  day." 

In  this  private  issue  and  also  in  the  current  editions, 
this  stanza  reads  : 

"  Is  the  goal  so  far  away  ? 

Far,  how  far  no  tongue  can  say  : 

Let  us  dream  our  dream  to-day," 

These  three  lines  were  omitted  entirely  when  the 
poem  was  first  collected  in  the  Works  oi  1872.  They 
were,  however,  restored  in  later  editions. 

Again,  the  last  line  here  reads  : 

"  And  gathering  all  the  fruits  of  peace  and  crown 'd  with  all 
her  flowers." 

While  the  private  issue  and  the  current  editions 
read : 

•*  And  gathering  all  the  fruits  of  earth  and  crown 'd  with  all  her 
flowers." 

The  entire  text  as  given  in  Frasers,  including  the 
three  suppressed  lines,  was  reprinted  by  Shepherd  in 
his  little  collection  of  1875  although  not  included  in 
those  of  1870. 

From  all  this  it  would  seem  that  the  edition  as  set 
to  music  is  actually  the  first  edition.  Confirmatory 
evidence  is  found  in  the  dates  of  printing  found  on 
the  separate  parts  as  set  to  music. 

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WORKS  OF 


ODE  FOR  THE  OPENING  OF  THE 
INTERNATIONAL       EXHIBITION. 

Set   to    Music   by    Sterndale    Bennett. 
London,  1862.     4  parts,  folio,  sewed. 

This  IS  the  "  Ode  "  as  set  to  music  and  sung  on 
May  first  at  the  opening  of  the  Exhibition.  In  Part 
II  (Contralto)  pages  3  and  5  are  stamped  "  Proof 
from  Manuscript."  Parts  I  and  II  have  printed  at 
the  end  in  small  type,  "  12,  4,  62  "  and  Parts  III  and 
IV  have  "  17,  6,  62,"  meaning,  apparently,  that  the 
first  two  parts  were  printed  on  the  12th  of  April, 
1862,  and  the  last  two  on  the  17th  of  June,  1862.  If 
this  is  the  meaning  of  these  figures  Parts  III  and  IV 
are  not  first  editions  in  this  set. 

As  outlined  above  this  almost  certainly  antedates 
the  separate  issue  already  described,  and  even  the  un- 
authorized appearance  in  the  Times. 

IDYLLS  OF  THE  KING.  New  Edition. 
London,  1862.  Title,  Dedication  and  con- 
tents only,  as  separately  issued.  i6mo,  un- 
bound, uncut. 

After  the  death  of  the  Prince  Consort,  Tennyson, 
wishing  to  honor  his  memory,  dedicated  the  second 
edition  of  the  Idylls  of  the  Kingto  him  as  he  had  been  a 
warm  admirer  of  the  book.  The  two  half-titles  were 
omitted,  making  four  preliminary  leaves  in  this,  as 
well  as  in  the  first  edition.  A  few  copies  of  this  sig- 
nature containing  the  dedication  were  pulled  off  for 
distribution,  probably,  to  those  having  copies  of  the 
first  edition,  which,  of  course,  were  without  dedication. 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

POEMS.  MDCCCXXX.  MDCCCXXXIIL 

Privately  Printed,  1862.      i6mo,   original 
blue  paper  cover,  uncut  and  unopened. 

Collation  :  Title,  half-title  and  Contents,  pp.  i-viii ;  text, 
pp.  1-112. 

This  is  Hotten's  pirated  volume,  said  by  Mr.  Wise 
to  have  been  edited  by  J.  Dykes  Campbell,  and  to 
have  been  printed  in  the  island  of  Mauritius.  Shep- 
herd says  that  he  "  never  saw  a  copy  "  and  that  he 
did  not  "  know  its  contents."  It  contains  all  of 
Tennyson's  poems  printed  in  the  1830  and  1833 
volumes,  which  were  suppressed  in  the  1842  edition, 
as  well  as  alterations  and  variations. 

In  Hotten's  Catalogue  of  July,  1862  (we  quote 
from  Tennyson's  "Amended  Bill  of  Complaint"), 
the  book  is  thus  described  : 

"The  Lost  Poems  of  the  Poet  Laureate.  These  are  the 
choice  poems  that  have  been  dropped  or  thrown  aside  by  the 
Poet  during  his  literary  career.  They  have  been  collected  with 
considerable  care  and  labor  by  a  gentleman  of  great  literary 
taste  in  Western  Canada.  The  little  volume  also  includes 
variations  in  the  text  and  the  successive  changes  that  have 
taken  place  in  the  growing  up  of  the  Poem.  It  is  understood 
that  only  an  exceedingly  limited  number  of  copies  have  been 
taken  off  most  creditably  in  point  of  workmanship  at  the  Back- 
woods press." 

This  statement  that  the  book  was  printed  in  Can- 
ada has  often  been  repeated.  It  is,  of  course,  false. 
The  book  is  accompanied  in  this  set  by  the  following 
very  interesting  document : 

In  Chancery.     Between  Alfred  Tennyson,  Plaintiff,  and  John 
Camden  Hotten,  Defendant.    Amended  Bill  of  Complaint. 

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POEMS,  \%b2— Continued 

Filed  30th  July,  1862.     Amended  ist  August,  1862.    8  pages, 
folio,  sewed. 

Though  probably  not  actually  drawn  up  by  Tenny- 
son himself,  the  words  are  technically  his  and  the  docu- 
ment is  of  considerable  interest,  Mr.  Wise,  in  the 
proof-sheets  before  us,  quotes  i)i  cxtcnso  the  original 
Bill  of  Complaint,  dated  July  30th,  but  does  not 
mention  this  Amended  Bill.  He  states  that  the 
injunction  prayed  for  was  granted  on  the  31st  day 
of  July,  but  if  so,  we  wonder  why  this  Amended  Bill 
dated  August  i,  was  prepared  and  printed.  Mr. 
Wise  also  states  that  the  case  "  was  ultimately  set- 
tled by  private  arrangement  between  Counsel,  the 
Defendant  making  a  most  humble  apology,  paying 
one  hundred  pounds,  and  delivering  up  all  copies  in 
his  possession  or  power." 

Shepherd  mentions  an  "  Order  of  the  Court  "  sup- 
pressing the  book,  but  does  not  give  its  date. 

A  WELCOME.     London,  1863.     i6mo,  un- 
bound. 

Collation ;  Title  and  text,  pp.  1-4. 

These  lines  were  written  in  honor  of  the  present 
Queen  of  England  on  the  occasion  of  her  arrival  from 
Denmark,  March  7,  1863,  as  the  betrothed  of  King 
Edward  VII,  then  Prince  of  Wales.  They  were  mar- 
ried on  March  loth.  This  leaflet  form  was  printed 
early  in  March  and  is  the  earliest  issue.  The  text  was 
considerably  amplified  when  the  poem  was  published 
in  the  "  Enoch  Arden  "  volume  the  next  year. 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

A  WELCOME  TO  HER  ROYAL  HIGH- 
NESS   THE  PRINCESS  OF  WALES. 
London,  1863.     Imperial  8vo,  cloth. 
This  elaborately  ornamented  edition  has  the  same 

text  as  the  leaflet  and  was  probably  issued  shortly  after. 


A   WELCOME. 


ALFRED    TENNYSON,    D.C.L.. 


LONDON: 
EDWARD  MOXON  &  CO.,  DOVliR  STREET. 

1863. 


The  other  was  certainly  printed  before  the  marriage 
and  this  after.    The  illuminations  are  by  Owen  Jones. 

IDYLLS  OF  THE  HEARTH.  London, 
1864.  i6mo,  olive  levant  morocco,  elabor- 
ately tooled,  gilt  top,  uncut. 

Collation :  Title  and  Contents,  pp.  i-iv  ;  text,  pp.  1-178. 

47 


WORKS   OF 


IDYLLS  OF  THE  HEARTH,  libj^— Continued 

It  was  originally  intended  to  publish  the  "  Enoch 
Arden "  volume  under  the  above  title.  In  this 
form  the  book    is   extremely  rare,    Mr.    Charles    B. 


IDYLLS  OF  TEE  HEARTH. 


ALFRED  TENNYSON,  P.L,  D.C.L. 


LONDON: 
EDWAUD  MOXON  &  CO.,  DOVER  STREET. 

18G4. 


Foote's  copy  with  a  few  slight  corrections  in  the 
autograph  of  the  author,  having  sold  for  $225,00  in 
1895.  The  book  differs  from  Enoch  Arden,  Etc.,  only 
in  the  title-page  and  Table  of  Contents,  which,  be- 
ing part  of  the  same  sheet  as  the  title,  was  re- 
printed. 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

ENOCH  ARDEN,  etc.  London,  1864.  i6mo, 
cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Title  and  Contents,  pp.  i-iii;  text,  pp.  1-178. 

As  stated  above,  this  is  the  published  form  of  the 
book  which  was  first  prepared  for  issue  under  the 
title  of  Idylls  of  the  Hearth.  It  is  probable  that  the 
first  signature  for  the  entire  edition  was  printed  with 
the  earlier  title,  and  that  in  all  except  a  very  few 
copies  already  sent  out  the  sheet  was  destroyed  and 
the  new  one,  containing  reprinted  title  and  Contents, 
was  substituted  before  the  books  were  bound. 

This  volume  contains  one  poem,  "  The  Ringlet," 
54  lines,  which  was  suppressed  by  the  poet  in  all  later 
editions  of  his  works. 

Several  of  the  poems  in  the  volume  had  previously 
appeared  in  periodicals,  and  one,  "The  Sailor  Boy," 
had  appeared  in  an  Annual,  The  Victoria  Regia,  as 
well  as  separately,  as  already  described. 

"The  Grandmother"  appeared  originally  in  Once 
a  Week  for  July  16,  1859.  1^  '^^^^  there  entitled 
"  The  Grandmother's  Apology." 

"Sea  Dreams"  appeared  in  Macmillans  Mag- 
azine for  January,  i860;  "  Tithonus "  in  Cornhill 
for  February,  i860  ;  and  the  "Specimen  of  a  Trans- 
lation of  the  Iliad  "  in  Cornhill  for  December,  1863. 

A  SELECTION  FROM  THE  WORKS 
OF  ALFRED  TENNYSON.  Lon- 
don, 1865.  1 6mo,  sheets,  folded,  uncut  and 
unopened. 

Collation  :     Half-title,  title  and   Contents,   pp.  i-vii ; 
text,  pp.  1-256;  frontispiece  portrait  printed  separately. 

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SELECTION  FROM  WORKS,  i&Gs—Con(mi(ed 

This  volume  contains  three  poems  here  first  pub- 
lished : 

The  Captain. 

Three  Sonnets  to  a  Coquette. 

On  a  Mourner. 
In  addition  there  are  included  variations  in  two  of 
the  songs  of  "  The  Princess."  These  seem  to  be 
earlier  versions  than  those  printed  in  the  third  edi- 
tion of  the  poem  in  1850.  This  version  of  these  two 
songs  was  never  afterwards  reprinted  in  any  author- 
ized edition  of  the  author's  works. 

THE  WINDOW,  OR  THE  LOVES  OF 
THE  WRENS.  Canford  Manor,  1867. 
4to,  red  levant  morocco,  uncut,  by  Riviere. 

Collation  :  Printer's  mark,  (the  initials  I.  B.  G.  inter- 
twined), half-title,  title,  and  dedication,  each  one  leaf ; 
text,  1 5  leaves,  printed  on  one  side  only,  followed  by  a 
blank  leaf. 

These  verses  were  written  while  Tennyson  was  vis- 
iting at  Canford  Manor,  and  were  first  printed,  with 
Tennyson's  permission,  at  the  private  press  of  his 
host,  Sir  Ivor  Bertie  Guest.  The  marks  on  the  title- 
page,  "=:,  -^,  :{:,  7,"  are  said  to  be  the  private  marks 
of  the  amateur  compositors,  Lord  Wimborne,  Lady 
Layard,  Lady  Charlotte  Schreiber  and  Mrs.  E.  Pon- 
sonby. 

The  volume  has  this  dedication: 

"  These  little  songs  whose  almost  sole  merit,  /  at  least  till 
they  are  wedded  to  music,  /  is  that  they  are  so  excellently 
printed,  /  I  Dedicate  /  to  /  The  Printer." 

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THE  WINDOW,  i?>t-]— Continued 

The  Memoir  states  that  it  was  at  the  suggestion  of 
Sir  George  Grove  that  Tennyson  undertook  to  write 
a  series  of  songs  to  be  set  to  music,  but  in  the  pref- 


THE 

WINDOW. 

OR 

THE  LOVES  OF  THE  WRENS. 

BY 

ylLFRED 

TENArVSON.    D  C  L. 

POET      LAUREATE. 

l^^tt 

Hmi 

CANPORD      MANOR. 

=,■$•.:.  7- 

MDCCCLXVIl. 

atory  note  to  the  pubHshed  edition  with  the  music 
Tennyson  says :  "  Four  years  ago  Mr.  SulHvan  re- 
quested me  to  write  a  little  song  cycle,  German  fash- 
ion, for  him  to  exercise  his  art  upon." 

The  text  of  the  poem  in  this  private  edition  differs 
considerably  from  all  the  published  versions.  The 
principal  changes  are  made  in  Sections   V  and  VL 

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THE  WINDOW,  \^(i1— Continued 

Section  V  here  contains  three  stanzas  of  eight  Hnes 
each.  The  second,  which  was  omitted  in  the  pub- 
lished versions,  is : 

"  Birds'  love  and  men's  love, 

Once  and  once  for  all ; 
And  you  so  small  and  you  so  fair, 

You  so  fair  and  small ! 
You  so  fair  !  am  I  so  black  ? 

Aren't  we  birds  of  a  feather  ? 
You  so  small!  am  I  so  tall? 

Can't  we  come  together  ?  " 

The  poem  was  first  collected  in  the  Cabinet  Edi- 
tion of  Works  in  1874. 

Note:  "  The  Victim  "  was  the  title  of  a  second  poem  printed 
by  titled  compositors  at  the  Canford  Manor  Press.  It  was  first  is- 
sued in  small  octavo  and  of  this  edition  only  a  single  copy,  now 
owned  by  Mr.  William  Harris  Arnold,  is  known  to  exist.  These 
copies  seem  to  have  been  destroyed  when  the  decision  was  arrived  at 
to  issue  "  The  Victim  "  in  quarto,  uniform  with  "The  Window."  Mrs. 
Tennyson's  journal  of  December  i,  1867,  saj'S  :  "  '  The  Song  of  the 
Wrens'  and  'The  Victim.'  printed  at  the  Canford  Press,  received 
from  Sir  Ivor  Guest." 

"  The  Victim"  was  printed  in  Good  Words  in  January,  1868,  and 
in  the  "  Holy  Grail '"  volume  in  1869  (dated  1S70). 

LUCRETIUS.       Cambridge,    Mass.,    1868. 
Square  i6mo,  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :    Half-title,   title,  prefatory  note  and  text, 
pp.   1-27. 

This  poem  appeared  simultaneously  xxxMacmillan's 
Magazine  in  England,  and  in  Every  Saturday  in  this 
country,  in  May,  1868.     It  was  not  reprinted  by  its 

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LUCRETIUS,  iSbS—Cofidnu^d 

author  until  it  appeared  in  the  "  Holy  Grail "  vol- 
ume, dated  1870,  though  issued  in  1869.  This  edi- 
tion was,  however,  set  up  and  printed  in  this  country. 
It  has  the  following  introductory  note  by  James  T. 
Fields : 


LUCRETIUS 


ALFRED    TENNYSON 

Poet    Laureate 


OAMBBTDOE,  MASS. 

Prinkd  for    Pmatt    CifmliUim 
1868 


"  The  following  noble  poem  having  been  published  simultan- 
eously in  the  United  States  and  England, — in  Every  Saturday 
(Boston)  and  in  Maanillan's  Magazine  (London) — it  might 
have  been  expected  that  a  separate  issue  of  it  would  soon  have 
been  published,  so  that  Mr.  Tennyson's  admirers  might  have 
it  in  the  convenient  form  of  a  book.     No  such  volume  having 


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LUCRETIUS,  i2,bS—ContitiufJ 

appeared  in  London  yet,  the  present  writer  has  thought  it  well 
to  get  a  few  copies  printed  in  a  modest  form  for  the  use  of 
himself  and  friends,  and  has  not  scrupled  to  retain  a  passage 
describing  the  Oread  (the  passage  enclosed  in  a  parenthesis  at 
page  20)  which  appears  in  Every  Saturday  but  not  in  Macinil- 
lan,  having  been  cancelled  in  the  latter  after  the  advance  sheets 
for  the  former  had  left  the  poet's  hands. 

"  Two  other  variations  between  the  Boston  and  London  ver- 
sions will  be  found  noted  at  the  bottom  of  the  pages  where 
they  respectively  occur.  The  printers  of  the  Boston  version  do 
not  admit  that  there  was  any  blundering  on  their  part  in  either 
case :  but  the  present  writer  cannot  think  that  Mr.  Tennyson 
ever  wrote  either  the  line — 

'  Tickling  the  brute  within  the  man's  brain,' 
or  that  he  made  use  of  the  expression  chilly  want  and  then 
altered  it  to  childly  wont.     He  must  have  written  childly  wont, 
and  some  one  who  did  not  understand  what  it  meant  must  have 
substituted  chilly  want  as  a  probable  cause  of  prayer  !  " 

It  is  curious  that,  though  printed  in  this  country, 
no  copies  seem  to  turn  up  here  in  the  market.  The 
first  copy  to  be  offered  at  auction  was  one  which 
brought  £12  in  the  Crampon  sale  in  1896.  The 
auctioneer's  catalogue  stated  that  only  twenty  copies 
were  printed. 

Note  :  Under  the  date  1833  we  have  noted  the  trial  edition  of 
The  Lover  s  Tale  issued  in  that  year.  In  i86g,  the  poem,  with 
many  alterations  and  the  addition  of  a  new  third  part,  was  again  put 
in  type.  Apparently  some  copies  of  the  book  were  printed  off,  as  in 
his  suit  in  chancery  to  restrain  R.  H.  Shepherd  from  issuing  his 
pirated  edition  of  the  poem,  Tennyson  testified  that  "all  copies  of 
the  reprint  (of  1869)  were  destroyed."  Notwithstanding  this  state- 
ment, two  sets  of  proof-sheets  of  this  edition  were  preserved,  one  by 
Tennyson  himself,  the  other  by  his  publisher,  Strahan.  The  former 
found  its  way  into  the  collection  of  the  late  Frederick  Locker-Lamp- 
son  and  the  latter  into  that  of  Mr.  Thomas  J.  Wise. 

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t^^?fc^   <C''^  *~^    "^"S 


ALFRED,  LORD  TENNYSON 

THE  HOLY  GRAIL  AND  OTHER 

POEMS.     London,   1870.     i6mo,  original 

cloth,  uncut. 

Collation :    Half-title,  title  and  Contents,  pp.  i-vi;  half- 
title  and  text,  pp.  1-222  ;  advertisements,  I  leaf. 

Though  dated  1870  on  the  title-page  the  volume 
was  issued  in  December,  1869.  Four  new  blank- 
verse  poems  form  a  second  series  of  "  Idylls  of  the 
King": 

The  Coming  of  Arthur. 

The  Holy  Grail. 

Pelleas  and  Ettarre. 

The  Passing  of  Arthur. 
With  the  latter  is  incorporated  the  early  poem 
*'Morte  D'Arthur."  Besides  these  "Idylls"  the 
volume  includes  several  other  pieces  printed  for  the 
first  time,  as  well  as  "  The  Victim  "  and  "  Lucretius," 
which  had  already  been  privately  printed  in  book 
form,  and  a  poem,  "  Wages,"  ten  lines,  which  had 
appeared  \n  Macmillan'' s  Magazine  ior¥&hrmry,  1868. 
Inserted  in  this  copy  is  the  original  manuscript  of 
nine  lines  of  "  The  Coming  of  Arthur,"  in  Tenny- 
son's autograph : 

"  Far  shone  the  fields  of  May  thro'  open  door, 
The  sacred  altar  blossom'd  white  with  May, 
The  Sun  of  May  descended  on  their  King, 
They  gazed  on  all  earth's  beauty  in  their  Queen, 
RoU'd  incense,  &  there  passed  among  the  hymns 
A  voice  as  of  the  waters,  while  the  two 
Sware  at  the  shrine  of  Christ  a  deathless  love  ; 
And  Arthur  said, '  man's  word  is  God  in  man. 
I  love  thee,  &  I  trust  thee,  to  the  death.'  " 

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THE  HOLY  GRAIL,  i^-jo— Continued 

These  lines  do  not  appear  in  this  first  edition,  but 
appear  in  the  1872  and  all  later  editions.  From  the 
appearance  of  the  manuscript  it  seems  probable  that 
instead  of  being  new  lines  written  for  the  revised 
edition  they  are  really  part  of  the  original  version, 
at  first  suppressed,  but  afterward  restored.  When 
restored,  the  last  two  lines  are  altered,  and  in  the 
1872  and  later  editions  read  : 

•'  And  Arthur  said, '  Behold,  thy  doom  is  mine. 
Let  chance  what  will,  I  love  thee  to  the  death.'  " 

In  the  fifth  line  the  word  "among"  in  the  manu- 
script is  "  along"  in  the  1872  and  later  editions. 

In  this  connection  it  is  curious  to  note  that  the 
eighth  line,  as  it  appears  in  this  manuscript,  was 
used  in  the  revised  edition,  earlier  in  the  poem  and  a 
modification  of  the  ninth  line  as  well: 

"And  Arthur  said,  '  Man's  word  is  God  in  man  ; 
Let  chance  what  will,  I  trust  thee  to  the  death." 

Many  other  new  lines  were  inserted,  or  perhaps 
suppressed  lines  restored,  in  the  1872  edition  of  this 
poem. 

THE    LOVER'S   TALE.      London,    1870. 
i6mo,  sewed,  uncut. 

Collation:    Title  and  introduction,  pp.  i-viii ;   half-title 
and  text,  pp.  1-47. 

This  is  the  earliest,  according  to  Mr.  Wise,  of 
Richard  Heme  Shepherd's  six  pirated  editions  of 
The  Lover  s  Tale,  first  printed  in  1833,  but  suppressed. 
This  edition  was  printed  in  August,  1870,  from  the 

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THE  LOVER'S  TALE,  \%-]o— Continued 

copy  of  the  original  which  Mr.  Basil  Montague 
Pickering  had  purchased  at  auction  at  Sotheby's  in 
June  of   that  year.     Immediately  after  publication 


111 

LOVERS  TALE 

BY  ALFRED 

TENNYSON 

With  1  nonagrf.ph 

LONDOM 

Fifly  Cofiii  frh/ei  for.  frivitft  Cireuhlion 

M.I>.CCC.I,50«.' 

pressure  was  brought  to  bear  upon  both  Shepherd 
and  Pickering  and  the  book  was  suppressed. 

On  verso  of  title-page  is  the  inscription,  "  Price 
Twenty  Shillings."  The  bibliographical  introduction 
is  dated  at  end  "August,  1870,"  and  is  signed  "The 
Author  of  Tennysoniana." 

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THE  WINDOW;  OR,  THE  LOVES  OF 
THE  WRENS.  [London,  1870.]  i6mo, 
sewed,  uncut  and  unopened. 

Collation  :    Title  and  text,  pp.  1-16. 

Shepherd  has  told  how  he  pieced  together  this 
poem  from  the  references  of  Mr.  Barron  Bright- 
well's  Concordance  to  Tennyson  s  Works,  "with  the 
compiler's  aid,  who  supplied  the  lacunae  (though  he 
had  promised  not  to  give  any  one  a  copy),"  and 
printed  it  privately  a  few  weeks  before  the  first  pub- 
lished edition  appeared.  The  text  is  that  of  the 
Canford  Manor  edition,  and  includes  the  stanza  quoted 
on  page  52  which  seems  never  to  have  been  included 
in  any  published  version. 

POEMS.     [London,  Printed  for  R.  Herne 
Shepherd,  1870.]     i6mo,  sewed,  uncut. 
Collation  :  Title  and  text,  pp.  1-16. 

With  his  second  pirated  edition  of  The  Lover's 
Tale,  issued  in  the  latter  part  of  1870,  Shepherd  is- 
sued a  second  part,  sixteen  pages,  containing  sixteen 
pieces  by  Tennyson  which  had  appeared  in  various 
periodicals,  but  which  the  author  had,  for  the  most 
part,  not  considered  worthy  of  being  reprinted  in  any 
edition  of  his  works.  This  second  part  was  sold 
separately  at  2  shillings.  It  is  the  first  collected  edition 
in  book  form  of  all  the  pieces.  Except  where  noted 
they  were  never  printed  with  the  poet's  authorization. 

No  More. 

Anacreonatics. 

A  Fragment. 

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POEMS,  1870 — Continued 

These  three  pieces  all  originally  appeared  in  The 
Gem  for  1831. 

Sonnet.       "  Check  every  outflash,  every  ruder 
sally." 
First   appeared    in    The  Englishmait  s  Magazine, 

1831. 

Sonnet.      "  There  are  three  things  which  fill  my 
heart  with  sighs." 
First  appeared  in  The  Yorkshire  Literary  Annual, 
1832. 

Sonnet.      "  Me  my  own  Fate  to  lasting  sorrow 
doometh." 
First  appeared  in  Friendship's  Offering  for   1832. 
It  was  reprinted  in  the  Memoir. 

Lines.      "  Here   often,  when  a  child,   I  lay  re- 
clined." 
First  appeared  in   The  Manchester  Athencenm  Al- 
bum, 1850.     Reprinted  in  the  Memoir. 
The  New  Timon  and  the  Poets. 
First  appeared  in  Punch,  1 846. 

Stanzas.    "  What  time  I  wasted  youthful  hours." 
First  appeared  in  The  Keepsake,  185 1. 
Sonnet.     "Farewell,    Macready,  since  to-night 
we  part." 
First  appeared  in  TJie  Household  Narrative  of  Cur- 
rent Events,  185 1.     Reprinted  in  the  Collected  Works 
in  1891. 

Britons,  Guard  Your  Own. 
First  appeared  in  The  Examiner,  January  31,  1852. 
Reprinted  in  the  Memoir. 
Hands  all  Round. 

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POEMS,  i%-]iy— Continued 

First  appeared  in  The  Examiner  of  February  7, 
1852.     Reprinted  with  "  Teresias  "  in  1885. 

Stanzas  on  the  Marriage  of  the  Princess  Royal. 
"God  Bless  our  Prince  and  Bride." 
These  two  additional  stanzas  for  "  God  Save  the 
Queen,"  first  appeared  in   TJie  Times  of  January  26, 
1858.     They  were  reprinted  in  the  Memoir. 

The  War.  "  There  is  a  sound  of  thunder  afar." 
First  appeared  in  The  Times,  May  9,  1859.  Re- 
printed as  "  Riflemen,  Form,"  in  The  Death  of  CEnonc, 
in  1892.  An  earlier  form  of  the  poem,  entitled  "  Rifle 
Clubs,"  was  first  printed,  from  the  original  manuscript, 
in  New  York  in  1899. 

Epitaph  on  the  Duchess  of    Kent.     "  Long  as 
the  heart  beats  life  within  her  breast." 
First  appeared  in   The  Court  Journal,  March    19, 
1864. 

1 865-1 866.    "  I   stood  on  a  tower  in  the  wet." 
First  appeared  in  Good  Words,  March,  1868. 

THE   LAST   TOURNAMENT.     London, 

1 87 1.      i6mo,  blue  levant  morocco,  gilt  top, 

uncut,  by  Riviere. 

Collation :  Half-title,  title,  note,  half-title  and  text,  pp. 
1-54. 

This  poem  appeared  in  the  Contemporary  Reviezv 
for  December,  1871,  but  from  certain  slight  variations, 
it  seems  probable  that  this  private  issue  was  printed 
before  the  magazine  issue.  The  types  and  arrange- 
ment are  the  same  as  the  other  volumes  of  the  Idylls 
and  the  book  is  page  for  page  with  the  corresponding 

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THE  LAST  TOURNAMENT,  \iii— Continued 

matter  in  the  volume  GaretJt  and  Lynctte,  published 
the  next  year.     On  the  back  of  the  title  is  this  note : 

"  The  place  of  this  poem  among  the  Idylls  of  the  King  is  ht- 
iv;ten  Pelleas  and  Effarre  and  Guinevere.     In  the  concluding 


THE 

LAST    TOURNAMENT 


By  ALFRED  TENNYSON.  D.C.U 


STRAHAN  *  CO. 

S6t   LUDCaTB   hill.   LONDON 
1S71 

[Mil rights  resened.\ 


volumes  of  the  Library  Edition,  the  whole  series  will  appear  in 
Its  proper  shape  and  order." 

This  is  one  of  the  rarest  of  the  Tennyson  "  trial 
books,"  only  some  six  or  seven  copies  being  known. 
The  differences  between  this  private  1871  edition 
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THE  LAST  TOURNAMENT,  \%^\— Continued 

and  the  published  1872  text  are  noted  in  pencil  in 
the  copy  of  Gareth  and  Lynette  in  this  set. 

Note  :     A  new  section,  following  No.  XXXVIII,  beginning 
"  Old  warder  of  these  buried  bones," 
was  added  or  restored  to  "In  Memoriam  "  in  the  Miniature  edition 
of  Works,  published  in  1871. 

THE  WINDOW;  OR,  THE  SONGS  OF 
THE  WRENS.  With  Music  by  Arthur 
Sullivan.     London,  1871.     410,  cloth. 

Collation  :  Half-title,  title,  note  and  Contents,  4  leaves; 
text  and  music,  42  leaves  ;  slip  of  errata. 

This  is  the  first  published  edition  and  contains  a 
prefatory  note  by  Tennyson,  dated,  December,  1870. 

"  Four  years  ago  Mr.  Sullivan  requested  me  to  write  a  little 
song-cycle,  German  fashion,  for  him  to  exercise  his  art  upon. 
He  had  been  very  successful  in  setting  such  old  songs,  as 
*  Orpheus  with  his  lute,'  and  I  drest  up  for  him,  partly  in  the  old 
style,  a  puppet,  whose  almost  only  merit  is,  perhaps,  that  it  can 
dance  to  Mr.  Sullivan's  instrument.  I  am  sorry  that  my  four- 
year-old  puppet  should  have  to  dance  at  all  in  the  dark  shadow 
of  these  days  ;  but  the  music  is  now  completed,  and  I  am  bound 
by  my  promise." 

The  text,  as  already  noted,  differs  very  consider- 
ably from  that  of  the  Canford  Manor  edition.  Sec- 
tion VI  of  the  poem  has  in  the  Table  of  Contents 
the  note : 

*'  The  music  was  composed  to  an  earlier  version  of  this  song." 

No  music  was  composed  to  Section  X  of  the  poem, 
although  the  text  is  printed  as  Section  IX  ^.  Sec- 
tions XI  and  XII  of  the  original  edition  thus  become 
Sections  X  and  XI  here. 

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GARETH    AND   LYNETTE.        London, 
1872.      i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Half-title,  title  and  note,  pp.  i-v;  half-title 
and  text,  pp.  1-136  ;  List  of  Books  published  by  Stra- 
han,  pp.  I -10. 

This  volume,  a  third  series  of  "  Idylls  of  the  King,  ' 
contains  only  two  poems : 
Gareth  and  Lynette. 
The  Last  Tournament. 
They  have  the  following  prefatory  note : 

"  Of  these  two  Idylls,  Gareth  follows  The  Coming  of 
Arthur,  and  The  Last  Tournament  immediately  precedes 
Guinevere.  The  concluding  volumes  of  the  Library  edition 
will  contain  the  whole  series  in  its  proper  shape  and  order." 

"  The  Last  Tournament"  had  been  privately  printed 
the  year  before,  as  described  above.  The  variations  be- 
tween that  issue  and  this  1872  edition  are  noted  in 
pencil  in  this  copy. 

WORKS.   Library  Edition.   London,  1872- 
73.     6  vols.,  8vo,  cloth,  uncut. 

Several  poems  appeared  for  the  first  time  in  book 
form  in  this  collected  edition.  Among  the  "  Juven- 
ilia" in  Vol.  I  are  two  early  sonnets,  "The  Brides- 
maid "  and  "Alexander,"  here  published,  apparently, 
for  the  first  time.  In  Vol,  III  are  included  four 
poems  contributed  to  periodicals,  but  here  first  col- 
lected : 

The  Third  of  February,  1852. 
First  appeared  in  The  Examiner,  February  7,  1852. 

Literary  Squabbles. 

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WORKS,  1S72-73 — Continued 

First  appeared  in  Piuich,  March  7,  1846. 
On  a  Spiteful  Letter. 

First  appeared  in  Once  a  Week,  January  4,  1868. 
On  Translations  of  Homer. 

First  appeared  in  the  Cornhill  Magazine,  December, 
1863. 

The  "  Ode  Sung  at  the  Opening  of  the  Interna- 
tional Exhibition,"  which  had  been  printed  in  1862,  as 
already  described,  is  included  here  in  Vol.  III. 

Volumes  V  and  VI,  the  title-pages  of  which  are 
dated  1873,  contain  the  series  of  "  Idylls  of  the  King," 
now  for  the  first  time  arranged  in  their  correct  order. 
A  number  of  alterations  in  the  text  of  the  separate 
pieces  first  appeared  in  this  edition.  At  the  end  are 
four  pages  of  verses  "To  the  Queen,"  here  first 
printed.  These  verses  seem  to  have  been  an  after- 
thought. The  text  proper  of  the  volume  ends  on 
page  294  followed  by  "  The  End."  This  is  followed 
by  a  blank  leaf,  which,  according  to  the  Table  of  Con- 
tents must  be  counted  as  pages  295  and  296.  After 
this  blank  leaf  comes  the  two  leaves,  four  pages  of 
"To  the  Queen."  These  pages  are  not  numbered, 
but  in  the  Contents  the  verses  are  indicated  as  be- 
ginning on  page  297.  These  verses  are  not  printed 
on  a  separate  sheet,  however,  but  form  part  of  signa- 
ture U,  eight  leaves,  pages  289  to  304.  O  f  this  signa- 
ture pages  289  to  294  comprise  the  last  three  leaves 
of  "The  Passing  of  Arthur"  ;  pages  295  and  296  are 
blank ;  pages  297  to  300  contain  the  verses  "  To  the 
Queen";  page  301  is  imprint ;  and  pages  302  to  304 
are  blank. 


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WORKS,  1872-73 — Continued 

Four  poems  from  Poems  CJiicfly  Ly)'ical,  published 
in  1830,  and  six  pieces  from  the  volume  of  Poems 
published  in  1833,  are  for  the  first  time  reprinted, 
with  the  poet's  authority  in  this  edition.  The  titles 
of  these  are  indicated  in  the  comment  on  these  two 
volumes. 

Notes  :  The  poem  "  A  Welcome  to  Her  Royal  Highness  Marie 
Alexandrovna,  Duchess  of  Edinburgh,"  first  appeared  in  The  Titnes 
on  the  morning  of  the  royal  marriage,  March  7,  1874.  It  was 
printed  privately  as  an  octavo  pamphlet  of  eight  pages.  There 
is  also  another  issue  in  quarto  form,  as  described  by  Shepherd.  Both 
of  these  are  very  rare.  The  poem  was  first  published  in  book  form 
in  VoL  IV  of  the  Cabinet  edition  of  the  Works,  1874. 

This  Cabinet  edition  of    Works,  published    in  twelve  volumes  in 
1874  includes  three  other  poems  first  printed  in  book  form  : 
England  and  America  in  1782. 
This  had  appeared  in  the  N'cm  York  Ledger  in  1872. 
In  the  Garden  of  Swainston. 
The  Voice  and  the  Peak. 
The  poem  "  The  Window,"  which  had  already  appeared  in  a  pri- 
vately printed  edition,  as  well  as  in  a  published  edition,  set  to  music, 
Is  first  included  in  this  edition  of  the  Works. 

QUEEN    MARY.      London,    1875.     i6mo, 
original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Advertisement,  half-title,  title,  and  Dramatis 
Personas,  pp.  i-viii ;  text,  pp.  1-278 ;  advertisements, 
5  leaves. 

Tennyson  planned  a  series  of  three  plays  dealing 
with  three  great  periods  in  English  history.  He 
called  them  his  "  historical  trilogy."  This,  the  last  of 
the  three,  was  the  first  written,  in  the  same  way  as 
the  last  of  the  "  Idylls  of  the  King"  was  the  first 

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QUEEN  MARY,  \%^c^— Continued 

written.  The  others  were  "  Harold,"  published  in 
1877,  and  "  Becket,"  privately  printed  in  1879,  but  '^ot 
published  until  1884. 

"Queen  Mary"  was  acted  at  the  Lyceum  Theatre 
in  London  in  1876,  with  Irving  as  Philip  and  Miss 
Kate  Bateman  as  Queen  -Mary.  Tennyson  wrote 
some  twenty  lines  additional  for  the  play  as  acted, 
but,  according  to  \hQ  Memoir,  these  were  never  printed. 

An  autograph  letter,  signed,  of  the  author  is  in- 
serted in  this  copy. 

POEMS.     [London,  Printed  for  R.  Herne 
Shepherd,  1875.]     i6mo,  sewed,  uncut. 

Collation  :     Half-title  and  text,  pp.  1-32. 

This  is  another  of  Shepherd's  pirated  collections. 
It  was  issued  to  accompany  his  fifth  pirated  edition 
of  TJie  Lover  s  Tale,  but,  as  with  the  one  described  on 
pages  58  to  60  this  second  part  Poems,  was  intended 
also  to  be  sold  separately. 

This  collection  differs  from  the  preceding  ones, 
three  poems  being  struck  out  and  five  new  ones  in- 
serted, making  eighteen  in  all.  These  eighteen  pieces 
fill  thirty-two  pages,  whereas  the  sixteen  pieces  of 
the  earlier  editions  filled  only  sixteen  pages.  The 
contents  now  are : 

No  More. 

Anacreonatics. 

A  Fragment. 

Sonnet.     "Check   every   outflash,    every   ruder 
sally." 

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POEMS,  x'i'it^— Continued 

Sonnet.     "  There  are  three  things  which  fill  my 

heart  with  sighs." 
Sonnet.      "  Me  my  own  Fate  to  lasting  sorrow 

doometh." 
The  New  Timon,  and  the  Poets. 
After-Thought.* 
Reprinted  from   PuncJi,  March    7,  1846.     It    had, 
however,  been  included  in  the   Works  of  1872  with 
the  title  "Literary  Squabbles." 
On  a  Spiteful  Letter.* 
Reprinted  from   Once  a   Week,    January   4,    1868. 
Already  included  in  Works,  1872. 

Stanzas.     "What  time  I  wasted  useful  hours." 
Sonnet.     "  Farewell,    Macready,  since   to-night 

we  part." 
Britons,  Guard  Your  Own. 
The  Third  of  February,  1852.* 
Reprinted  from   The  Examiner,  February  7,  1852. 
Already  printed  in  Works,  \%'J2. 
Hands  all  Round. 
"  God  Bless  our  Prince  and  Bride." 
Ode.      "  Uplift    a    thousand    voices    full    and 
sweet."  * 
Reprinted  from  Frascr  s  Magazine,  June,  1862.    It 
had  appeared  separately,  as  already  described,  as  well 
as  in  the  Works  of  1872. 

Translations  of  Homer.* 
Reprinted  from  TJie  Cornhill  Magazine,  December, 
1863.     Already  printed  in  Works,  iSy2. 

Her  Children  rise  up  and  call  her  Blessed. 
The  five  new  pieces  are  marked  by  a  *. 

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POEMS.  i%TS— Continued 

Note  :  The  poem  "  To  the  Rev.  W.  H.  Brookfield  "  was  first 
printed  in  the  Memoir  of  Brookfield  prefixed  to  a  collection  of  his 
sermons  published  in  1875.  It  was  collected  in  the  volume  Ballads 
and  Other  Poems  in  1880. 

THE  NEW  TIMON  AND  THE  POETS. 

Privately  Printed,  1876.    i6mo,  sewed,  uncut. 

Collation  :     Title  and  text,  pp.  1-32. 

This  is  a  reprint  of  the  collection  described  above, 
which  was  printed  by  Shepherd  to  accompany  his 
fifth  and  sixth  editions  of  "  The  Lover's  Tale."  The 
only  difference  is  that  this  has  a  title-page,  as  follows: 

The  New  Timon  and  /  The  Poets  :  /  By  /  Alfred  Tennyson, 
D.C.L.  /  With  other  omitted  /  Poems.  /  Privately  Printed,  / 
1876. 

In  this  edition  page  14  is  misprinted  4. 

HAROLD,    A    DRAMA.       London,    1877. 
i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :     Half-title,  title,  dedication,  prefatory  sonnet 
and  Dramatis  Personas,  pp.  i-ix  ;  text,  pp.  1-161  ;  im- 
print, p.  162  ;    advertisements  of  Tennyson's  Works,  2 
leaves,  list  of  King's  publications,  pp.  1-30 ;  imprint, 
P-  31- 
Published  late  in  1876,  though  dated  1877  on  the 
title-page.    The  play  is  preceded  by  a  Sonnet  "  Show- 
day  at  Battle  Abbey,  1876." 

Note  :  To  Prof.  Jebb's  Greek  Literature  Primer,  published  in 
1877,  Tennyson  contributed  an  experiment  in  Sapphic  meter,  four 
lines,  beginning  : 

"  Faded  every  violet,  all  the  roses." 

These  lines  were  never  included  by  Tennyson  in  any  edition  of  his 
works,  but  are  reprinted  in  the  Memoir. 

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BECKET,  A  TRAGEDY.     London,   1879. 
i2mo,  binder's  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :    Half-title,  title  and  text,  pp.  1-123. 

This  was  the  second  of  Tennyson's  three  plays 
treating  of  important  periods  of  English  history,  and 


BECKET 

A    TRAGEDY 

LONDON  :    1879 


which  he  called  his  "  historical  trilogy."  In  this  one 
he  aimed  to  portray  the  struggle  between  the  Crown 
and  the  Church. 

This  first  privately  printed  edition  is  the  rarest  of 
all  the  author's  privately  printed  plays.     Only  some 

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BECKET,  A  TRAGEDY,  \%-]()— Continued 

three  copies,  outside  of  the  copyright  copies,  are 
known  to  exist.  The  reproduction  of  the  types  of 
the  title-page  herewith  is  the  exact  size  of  original 
although  the  title  leaf  itself  measures  7>^x5  inches. 

William  Allingham  records  in  his  diary,  under  date 
of  August  5,  1880,  that  Tennyson  said  to  him  : 

"  I  gave  Irving  my  '  Thomas  i  Becket';  he  said  it  was  mag- 
nificent, but  it  would  cost  him  ;^30oo  to  mount  it :  he  couldn't 
afford  the  risk.  If  well  put  on  the  stage  it  would  act  for  a  time, 
and  it  would  bring  me  credit  (he  said),  but  it  wouldn't  pay. 
He  said, '  If  you  give  me  something  short  I'll  do  it.'  So  I  wrote 
him  a  play  in  two  acts  '  The  Cup.'  " 

While  the  play  was  written  as  early  as  1879  ^"d 
printed  in  that  year,  it  was  not  published  until  1884. 
A  comparison  of  the  text  of  this  private  issue  with 
that  of  the  published  edition  of  1884  shows  al  arge 
number  of  variations.  The  play,  as  originally  writ- 
ten was,  apparently,  too  long  for  production  on  the 
stage,  and  when  the  acting  edition  was  printed  for 
Irving's  consideration  it  was  considerably  condensed. 
When  finally  published  the  passages  which  had  been 
cut  out  were  restored.  The  1884  edition,  therefore, 
contains  more  matter  than  this  1879  edition.  While 
the  principal  differences  between  the  two  texts  are 
brought  about  by  this  condensation  there  are  other 
differences  which  seem  to  point  to  an  effort  at  revi- 
sion and  improvement  on  the  part  of  the  author. 
These  changes  or  revisions  are  more  numerous  in  the 
first  part  of  the  play  than  in  the  later  scenes.  The 
private  edition  is  without  dedication. 

Some  of  the  longer  passages  which  occur  in  the 
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EECKET,  A  TRAGEDY,  iS-jg—Contini^eti 

1884  edition  but  not  in  that  of  the  1879  ^^^  the  follow- 
ing.    The  page  numbers  refer  to  the  1884  edition  : 

Page  18.  Herbert's  speech  beginning  "  I  left  him  with  peace  on 
his  face." 

Page  93.  The  latter  part  of  Henry's  speech  beginning  "I  am 
not  wortliy  of  her." 

Pages  113-114,  All  of  Walter  Map's  speech  except  the  first 
two  lines  and  the  last  three  lines.  This  speech  in  the  1879 
edition  reads  : 

"  Nay,  my  lord,  take  heart ;  for  tho'  you  suspended  your- 
self, the  Pope  let  you  down  again.  I  hate  a  split  between 
old  friendships  as  I  hate  the  gap  in  the  face  of  a  monk  ;  it 
will  swallow  anything.     Farewell." 

Page  115.     All  but  the  first  two  lines  of  Becket's  speech. 

Pages  132-138.  All  of  Act  HI,  scene  III,  from  the  beginning  to 
and  including  the  first  line  at  top  of  p.  1 39.  "Re-enter  Henry 
and  Becket"  reads  "Enter  Henry  and  Becket." 

Pages  143-146.  All  of  the  dialogue  between  Becket  and  Wal- 
ter Map,  which  finishes  Act  HI. 

Page  162.     Lines  3  to  10  of  Eleanor's  speech.     Line  3  in  the 
I S79  edition  reads  : 
"  My  gracious  lord,  you  have  spoilt  the  farce." 

Page  163-165.  All  of  the  dialogue  between  Eleanor  and  Fitz- 
urse  which  ends  Scene  H,  Act  IV. 

Page  195.    All  but  the  first  two  lines  of  Becket's  speech. 

These  are  the  longer  passages.  There  are,  how- 
ever, many  other  minor  elisions  varying  in  length 
from  a  word  or  two  to  several  lines. 

Only  two  full  lines  are  found  in  the  edition  of 
1879  ^rid  not  in  that  of  1884.  These  are  both  in 
Act  I,  Scene  III.  They  are  enclosed  in  brackets 
below.  The  context  occurs  at  the  top  of  page  55  of 
the  1884  edition. 

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BECKET,  A  TRAGEDY,  i'&-j()— Continued 

"Another  Tetnplar  {kneeling).    Father,  I  am  the 

youngest  of  the  Templars, 
[Youngest  and  oldest  we  entreat  thee  now ;] 
Look  on  me  as  I  were  thy  bodily  son. 
For,  like  a  son,  I  lift  my  hands  to  thee." 

"  Philip.    Wilt  thou  hold  out  forever,  Thomas 

Becket  ? 
[Are  thine  ears  seal'd  to  those  that  call  on  thee?] 
Dost  thou  not  hear  ?  " 

The  following  are  some  of  the  most  important 
minor  changes  of  text.  The  italics,  of  course,  are 
ours: 

1879.  But  that  I  fear  the  Queen  would  snatch  her  life. 

1884.  But  that  I  fear  the  Queen  would  have  her  life.        Page  4 

1879.  How  dost  thou  know  /  have  not  wedded  her  ? 

1884.  How  dost  thou  know  I  am  not  wedded  to  her?     Page  4 

1879.  Yet  would  I  that  thou  wert,  for  I  should  find 

1884.  /w^z^/^/^  6^0^  thou  wert,  for  I  should  find  Page  5 

1879.  And  this  plebeian  7iow  to  be  Archbishop  ! 

1884.  And  this  plebeian //-^^  to  be  Archbishop  !  Page  21 

1879.  The  rift  that  splits  between  me  and  the  King. 

1884.  The  rift  that  rz^wj- between  me  and  the  King.       Page  29 

1879.  I  do  think  the  King 

Did  urge  thy  election,  and  why  not  ? 

1884.  I  do  think  the  King 

Was  potent  in  the  election,  and  why  not  ?  Page  29 

1879.  I  cast  myself  asunder  from  the  King. 

1884.  \  gash  myself  asunder  from  the  King.  Page  30 

1879.  'Tis  now  you  are  as  winter  to  all  women, 

1884.  'Tis  now  you  are  tnidwinter  to  all  women.  Page  41 

1879.  Take  heed,  lest  he  should  crush  thee  utterly. 

1 884.  Take  heed,  lest  he  destroy  thee  utterly.  Page  45 

1879.  A  mete  place  for  the  monies  of  the  Church, 

That  be  the  rightful  patrimony  of  the  poor  ? 

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BECKET,  A  TRAGEDY.  I'^^q— Continued 

1884,     Kfit  place  for  the  monies  of  the  Church, 

That  be  the  patrimony  of  the  poor  ?  Page  49 

1879.     I  have  one  master — he — my  lord  the  King. 
1884.    Are  ye  my  masters,  or  my  lord  the  King  ?  Page  50 

1879.     When  every  baron  dip't  his  blade  in  blood  ; 
1884.    When  every  hdson  grotmd  his  blade  in  blood  ;     Page  58 
1879.     False  to  himself,  but  doubly  false  to  me  ! 
1884,    False  to  himself,  but  tenfold  false  to  me  !  Page  61 

1879.     A  /i9y«/ traitress  to  thy  royal  fame 

1884.     K  faithful  traitress  to  thy  royal  fame  Page  91 

1879.  — and  something 

Which  I  had  yet  to  say  will  so  much  vex  thee. 
1884.  — and  something 

/  had  to  say — /  love  thee  none  the  less — 

Which  will  so  vex  thee.  Page  95 

1879.     Map  rails  at  Rome.     I  all  but  hold  with  Map. 
1884.     Map  Jf^^at  Rome.    I  all  but  hold  with  Map.   Page  114 
1879.     6';«fl// peace  was  mine  in  my  novitiate,  father. 
1884.     Scant  peace  was  mine  in  my  novitiate,  father.    Page  179 

All  the  variations,  probably  several  hundred,  are 
noted  in  pencil  in  the  copy  of  the  1884  edition  in  this 
set. 

"  Becket"  was  finally  put  upon  the  stage  by  Irving 
in  1 89 1  and  proved  a  success. 


THE  FALCON.  London,  Printed  for  the 
Author,  1879.  i2mo,  original  blank  buff 
paper  cover,  uncut. 

Collation :   Half-title,  title,  Dramatis  Personas  and  text, 
pp.  1-34,  followed  by  a  blank  leaf. 

This  play  was  acted  by  the  Kendals  for  sixty-seven 
nights  in  December,  1879,  ^"^^  ^^  ^^^  early  part  of 

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THE  FALCON,   i%-]q— Continued 

1880.  It  was  not  published  until  1884.  This  is  one 
of  a  very  small  private  issue  printed  for  copyright, 
or  for  the  use  of  the  actors.  Shepherd  surmised  that 
there  might  have  been  a  private  edition  for  this  pur- 


THE   FALCON 


London  :   PaiNTW)  for  the  Author  :   1879. 


pose,  but  he  says  that  he  never  saw  or  heard  of  a 
copy. 

In  this  private  issue  the  names  of  the  actors  are  not 
inserted  in  the  Dramatis  Personae. 

A  careful  reading  of  this  private  edition  with  the 

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THE  FALCON,  \%-]C)— Continued 

published  edition  of  1884  discovers  only  a  single  var- 
iation in  the  text  and  that  of  no  importance. 

"I  thank  thee,  good  Filippo  "  in  the  1879  edition 
is  "  I  thank  you,  good  Filippo"  in  the  1884  volume 
(page  124). 

"Pinned"  in  1879  is  "  Pinn'd  "  in  i884,but  "  dash'd 
in  1879  ^s  "dashed"  in  1884.  These  and  twelve 
changes  in  punctuation  comprise  all  the  variations  in 
the  text  of  the  two  books.  Four  commas  were  struck 
out  and  one  inserted ;  one  period  was  changed  to  a 
comma  and  one  comma  was  changed  to  a  period ;  an 
exclamation  was  substituted  for  a  period,  etc. 

All  these  variations  are  noted  in  pencil  in  the  copy 
of  the  1884  edition  in  this  set. 

THE    LOVER'S    TALE.     London,    1879. 

i6mo,  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation :  Half-title,  title,  preface  and  text,  pp.  1-95 ; 
advertisements,  2  leaves. 

We  have  already  noted  the  editions  of  TJie  Lover  s 
Tale  which  appeared  in  1833  and  in  1869,  as  well 
as  the  pirated  edition  of  1870.  This  is  the  first 
authorized,  pubHshed  edition.  As  first  printed  in 
1833  the  poem  contained  two  parts  only.  In  1869  a 
new  third  part  was  added.  One  section  of  this  third 
part  was  included  in  the  "  Holy  Grail"  volume  un- 
der the  title  of  "  The  Golden  Supper."  In  this  edi- 
tion of  1879  the  first  section  of  the  third  part  as 
printed  in  1869  forms  Part  III  of  the  poem,  while 
the  portion  printed  as  "  The  Golden  Supper  "  forms 
a  Part  IV.     Between  these  two  in   the  edition  of 

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THE  LOVER'S  TALE,  \%i()—ContUuied 

1869  were  seventeen  lines,  which  have  never  yet  been 
reprinted. 

TENNYSONIANA.   Second  Edition.  Lon- 
don, 1879.      i2mo,  boards,  uncut. 

Collation  :    Half-title,  title,  dedication  and   Contents, 
pp.  i-viii ;  text  and  Index,  pp.  1-208. 

This  second  edition  of  Tcnnysoniana,  by  R.  Heme 
Shepherd,  includes,  on  page  52,  an  early  sonnet  by 
Tennyson, 

"  Therefore  your  halls,  your  ancient  colleges," 

which  had  been  written  in  1830.  Shepherd  found  it 
in  manuscript  on  the  fly-leaf  of  the  copy  of  Pocjiis  of 
1833  in  the  Dyce  collection  at  South  Kensington, 
It  was  never  included  in  any  authorized  edition  of 
the  poet's  works,  but  is  reproduced  in  the  Memoir. 
This  copy  is  one  of  a  small  issue  on  large  paper. 

BALLADS  AND  OTHER  POEMS.    Lon- 
don,  1880.     i6mo,  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Title,  dedicatory  verses  and  Contents,  pp. 
i-vi ;  text,  pp.  1-184;  advertisements,  2  leaves. 

During  1877,  1878,  1879  ^^^  1880,  Tennyson  con- 
tributed several  of  his  best  poems  to  the  Nineteenth 
Ceittury,  which  was  edited  by  his  friend,  James 
Knowles,  who  was  architect  of  Aldsworth.  To  No. 
I  of  the  magazine,  published  March,  1877,  he  con- 
tributed a  "  Prefatory  Sonnet."  The  following  were 
contributed  to  later  numbers ;  all  of  these  were  first 
collected  in  this  "  Ballads  "  volume: 

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BALLADS  AND  OTHER  POEMS,  I'&io—ContinueJ 

Montenegro.     May,  1877. 

To  Victor  Hugo.     June,  1877. 

Achilles  over  the  Trench.     August,  1877. 

The  Revenge :  A  Ballad  of  the  Fleet.     March, 

1878. 
The  Defence  of  Lucknow,  with  Dedication  to 

the  Princess  Alice.     April,  1879. 
De  Profundis.     May,  1880. 

COLLECTED  SONNETS  OLD  AND 
NEW.  By  Charles  Tennyson  Turner. 
London,  1880.      i6mo,  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation:  Half-title,  title,  dedication,  prefatory  poem, 
etc.,  pp.  i-xxii ;  Introductory  Essay  and  text,  pp.  1-390. 

To  this  collected  edition  of  poems  by  his  brother, 
Charles  Tennyson  prefixed  a  poem,  "  Midnight,  June 
30,  1879,"  written  shortly  after  his  elder  brother's 
death.     It  was  reprinted  with  "  Tiresias  "  in  1885. 

Note  :  The  two  "Child  Songs,''  "The  City  Child,"  and  "Minnie 
and  Winnie,"  published  in  St.  Nicholas  in  February  and  March,  iSSo, 
are  said  to  have  been  printed  in  England  as  an  octavo  pamphlet 
of  eight  pages.  ^Ve  know  of  no  copy  in  this  country,  however. 
The  two  pieces  were  included  in  the  18S4  edition  of  IVorks. 

THE  CUP.  London,  Printed  for  the 
Author,  i88i.  i2mo,  original  blank  buff 
paper  cover,  uncut. 

Collation :  Half-title,  title,  Dramatis  Personas  and  text, 
pp.  1-48. 

The  third,  so  far  as  we  know,  of  Tennyson's  pri- 
vately printed  plays. 

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THE  CUP,  i?>%\— Continued 

From  a  letter  by  Sir  Charles  Newton,  printed  in 
the  Memoir,  it  is  evident  that  "  The  Cup  "  was  at 
least  planned  as  early  as  March,  1879,  ^^id  from  the 
extract  from  Allingham's  diary  quoted  on  page  70,  it 


THE  CUP 


London:   Printed  for  the  Author;   i88i 


would  seem  as  if  the  play  was  finished  as  early  as 
August  5,  1880,  although  the  author's  son  in  the 
Memoir,  says  that  it  was  begun  in  November,  1879, 
and  finished  "late  in  1880,"  James  Knowles  wrote 
on  December  4,  1880,  asking  Tennyson  to  make  an 

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THE  CUP,  19,%!  — Continued 

appointment  to  read  the  play  to  Irving,  Ellen  Terry 
and  all  the  company  who  were  to  play  it,  on  Christ- 
mas Day.  This  appointment  was  kept,  and  accord- 
ing to  the  Memoir  a  few  alterations  from  the  first 
manuscript  copy  were  found  necessary  for  the  stage 
edition.  "Three  short  speeches  for  Synorix  were 
added.  Act  I,  Scene  3 ;  and  at  the  end  of  Act 
II,  the  quarrel  between  Sinnatus  and  Synorix  was 
lengthened  by  two  lines,  and  Camma  was  made 
to  interrogate  Sinnatus  as  to  what  Synorix  had 
said,  and  three  or  four  entrances  were  made  less 
abrupt." 

There  is  evidently  at  least  one  mistake  in  this 
statement.  As  Sinnatus  was  left  dead  at  the  end  of 
Act  I,  and  as  the  dialogue  between  Sinnatus  and  Sy- 
norix occurs  in  the  early  part  of  the  third  scene  of 
that  act,  all  of  the  alterations  noted  were  evidently 
made  in  the  third  Scene  of  Act  I. 

Again,  in  the  Monoir,  under  date  of  August,  1887, 
we  find  this  statement : 

"  Miss  Mary  Anderson  was  acting  in  '  The  Winter's  Tale '  in 
London  and  came  to  visit  us,  and  signed  an  agreement  to  pro- 
duce '  The  Cup.*  My  father  wrote  four  new  lines  for  her,  to  be 
sung  before  the  priestesses  in  the  Temple  : 

Artemis,  Artemis,  hear  us,  O  mother,  hear 

us  and  bless  us ! 
Artemis,  thou  that  art  life  to  the  wind, 

to  the  wave,  to  the  glebe,  to  the  fire. 
Hear  thy  people  who  praise  thee !    O  help 

us  from  all  that  oppress  us. 
Hear  thy  priestesses  hymn  thy  glory ! 

O  yield  them  all  their  desire." 

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THE  CUP,  i8S,i— Continut'c/ 

Now  these  four  lines  are  found  in  this  first  pri- 
vately printed  edition,  though  they  are  not  in  the 
first  published  edition  of  1884.  Evidently,  instead 
of  being  new  lines  written  for  Mary  Anderson,  they 
are  old  lines  restored  from  the  earlier  version. 

Six  additional  lines  not  in  the  1884  edition  are 
found  in  the  privately  printed  edition.  Though  not 
mentioned  in  the  Memoir  they  were  probably  restored 
to  the  text  at  the  same  time.  Both  are  found  in  the 
current  editions.  These  lines  form  a  part  of  the 
speech  of  Synorix  in  Act  11,  which  begins  "  The  love 
I  bear  to  thee."  The  portion  included  in  brackets 
below  is  not  found  in  the  1884  edition  (page  80). 
"  Let  all  be  done  to  the  fullest  in  the  sight 
Of  all  the  Gods. 

[Nay,  rather  than  so  clip 
The  flowery  robe  of  Hymen,  we  would  add 
Some  golden  fringe  of  gorgeousness  beyond 
Old  use,  to  make  the  day  memorial,  when 
Synorix,  first  King,  Camma,  first  Queen  o'  the  Realm 
Drew  here  the  richest  lot  from  fate,  to  live 
And  die  together.] 

This  pain — what  is  it  ? — again  ?  " 

In  this  privately  printed  edition  the  play  is  headed 
above  Act  I,  "The  Cup.  A  Tragedy."  In  the 
1884  edition  this  heading  is  simply  "  The  Cup." 
There  are  a  few  other  unimportant  points  of  differ- 
ence between  the  edition  of  1879  and  that  of  1884. 
The  page  numbers  refer  to  the  published  edition. 

"  Ay,  they  crown  him  "  becomes  "Ay,  there  they 
crown  him  "  (page  65). 

"  She — close   the   Temple  door,"    is   changed   to 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

THE  CUP.  i^ii—ConiinueJ 

"Temple  doors"  (page  8i).  This  is  perhaps  a 
misprint  as  the  current  editions  read  "door."  Two 
other  misprints  occur  in  the  1 884  edition.  "Mine"  is 
misprinted  "|mind  "  in  "  Some  friends  of  mine  would 
speak  with  me  without,"  on  page  28,  and  "  Doomed  " 
is  misprinted  "Domed"  in  the  line  "Doomed  cities, 
hear,"  on  page  71. 

The  other  differences  are  only  in  punctuation. 
Six  commas  have  been  added  and  one  struck  out; 
one  hyphen  has  been  added  and  one  struck  out ;  two 
periods  have  been  changed  to  commas  and  two  past 
participles  have  been  abbreviated  by  the  use  of  the 
apostrophe.  One  parenthesis  and  one  period  have 
been  added  which  v/ere  probably  left  out  of  the  1879 
edition  through  carelessness. 

All  these  variations  have  been  noted  in  pencil  in 
the  copy  of  the  1884  edition  in  this  set. 

THE  PROMISE  OF  MAY.  London. 
Printed  for  the  Author,  1882.  i2mo, 
original  light  brown  paper  cover,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Half-title,  title.  Dramatis  Personae  and  text, 
pp.  1-74- 

The  last  of  the  privately  printed  plays  and,  after 
"  Becket,"  the  rarest.  It  was  acted  for  a  few  weeks 
in  1882,  but  was  not  regularly  published  until  it  was 
included  in  the  volume  Locksley  Hall  Sixty  Years 
After  in  1887. 

A  comparison  of  the  text  of  this  privately  printed 
edition  with  that  of  the  published  edition  of  1887 
fails  to  discover  any  variations  worthy  of  note.     The 

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THE  PROMISE  OF  MAY,  1^2,2— Continued 

page  numbers  refer  to  Locksley  Hall  Sixty   Years 
After. 

On  page  loo  "  letter  "  becomes  "  letters  "  in  the 


THE 

PROMISE  OF  MAY 


t/)Nnori :  Printed  for  the  Author:  1882 


sentence  "  But  where  is  this  Mr.  Edgar  whom  you 
praised  so  in  your  first  letter?" 

On  page  149  "  'uns  "  is  changed  to  "  ones  "  in  the 
sentence  "Taake  one  o'  the  young  'uns  fust."  This 
is,  however,  probably  only  the  mistake  of  a  careless 
compositor  or  proof-reader. 

Four  commas  were  struck  out  and  six  were  added ; 
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THE  PROMISE  OF  MAY,  \i,i2— Continued 

one  period  is  changed  to  a  comma,  and  one  period 
and  one  exclamation-point  are  changed  to  marks  of 
interrogation  ;  "  Overwhelmed  "  was  printed  with  an 
apostrophe  "  overwhelm'd "  and  a  hyphen  was  in- 
serted in  "  half-return'd." 

All  these  variations  are  noted  in  pencil  in  the  copy 
of  Locksley  Hall  Sixty  Years  After  in  this  set. 

BECKET.     London,    1884.      i6mo,    original 
cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Half-title,  title,  dedication,  and  Dramatis 
Personae,  pp.  i-vii ;  text,  pp.  1-213;  blank,  p.  214; 
advertisements,  i  leaf. 

The  first  published  edition.  The  play  had  already 
been  privately  printed  in  1879.  The  principal  vari- 
ations between  it  and  this  first  published  edition 
have  been  noted  on  pages  69  to  'j'i^.  They  are  all  in- 
dicated in  pencil  in  this  copy.  An  acting  edition, 
much  condensed,  was  printed  in  1893. 

THE  CUP  AND  THE  FALCON.     Lon- 
DON,  1884.      i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation :  Half-title  and  title,  pp.  i-iii ;  half-title, 
Dramatis  Personae  and  text,  pp.  1-146;  advertisements, 
I  leaf. 

These  two  plays  are  here  first  published.  They 
had  both  been  printed  privately  as  already  described, 
"The  Falcon"  in  1879,  ^^i^  "The  Cup"  in  iSSr. 
The  variations  between  the  privately  printed  editions 
and  this  are  noted  in  pencil  in  this  copy.  The  names 
of  the  actors  of  the  various  parts,  when  the  plays  were 
first  staged,  are  inserted  in  the  Dramatis  Personae. 

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THE  PASSING  OF  ARTHUR.     London, 
1884.    i6mo,  original  printed  paper  cover. 

Collation  :  Half-title,  title  and  text,  pp.  1-24. 
Separately  printed  for  some  unknown  purpose  and 
very  rare.  It  was  first  published  in  the  second  vol- 
ume of  Pocvis  in  1842,  A  copy  brought  £14.  at 
Sotheby's  in  1 899.  The  price  "  Ninepence  "  is  printed 
at  the  bottom  of  the  front  cover. 

WORKS.     London,    1884.      Vol.    II,     only. 
i2mo,  cloth,  uncut. 

This  set  of  Tennyson's  Works,  as  published  in 
1884,  contained  seven  volumes,  but  this  second  vol- 
ume is,  we  believe,  the  only  one  containing  any  new 
poems.  On  pages  278  and  279 are  two  "Child-Songs": 
"  The  City  Child  "  and  "  Minnie  and  Winnie,"  which 
had  been  written  for  the  St.  Nicholas  Magazine, 
where  they  were  first  published  in  1880.  It  is  said 
the  two  poems  were  put  in  type  in  England  at  the 
same  time  for  copyright  purposes. 

On  page  302  of  this  volume  is  the  first  authorized 
reprint  of  the  experiment  in  metre,  "  Hexameters 
and  Pentameters,"  which  appeared  in  the  Cornhill 
Magazine  in  December,  1863.  The  other  "experi- 
ments," which  appeared  in  the  same  number  of  the 
magazine,  had  previously  been  collected  in  the 
"  Enoch  Arden  "  volume  in  1864,  and  in  Works,  1872. 

Note  :  In  The  Shakespeare  Show-Book,  published  in  1884, 
appeared  a  single  stanza,  four  lines,  beginning: 

"  Not  he  that  breaks  the  dams,  but  he." 

The  lines  were  never  reprinted  in  any  authorized  edition  but  are 
found  in  the  Alemoir  as  part  of  an  early  unpublished  poem,  "  The 
Statesman." 

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TIRESIAS  AND  OTHER  POEMS.    Lon- 
don, 1885.      i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation :    Half-title,  title,  dedication  and  Contents, 
pp.  i-viii;  text,  pp.  1-204,  the  last  page  unnumbered. 

The  following  poems,  first  collected  in  this  volume, 
had  already  appeared,  generally  in  periodicals,  as  in- 
dicated : 

Hands  all  Round. 
First  appeared  in  The  Examiner,  February  7,  1852. 
The  text  is  here  considerably  altered.     It  was  first 
collected   in  book  form  by   R.  H.  Shepherd  in  his 
pirated  volume  pubhshed  in  1870. 
Helen's  Tower. 
Privately  printed  by  Lord  Dufferin  in  1861,  as  de- 
scribed a)ite. 

Prefatory  Poem  to  My  Brother's  Sonnets. 
Printed  under  the  title  "  Midnight,  June  30,  1879," 
in  Collected  Sonnets  Old  and  New,  by  Charles   Tenny- 
son Turner,  in  1880. 
Despair. 
First  appeared  in  The  Nineteenth  Century,  Novem- 
ber, 1 88 1. 

The  Charge  of  the  Heavy  Brigade  at  Balaclava. 
Appeared  in  Macmillans  Magazine,  March,  1882. 

To  Virgil. 
Appeared    in  The  Nineteenth  Century,  November, 
1882. 

"  Frater  Ave  atque  Vale." 
Appeared  in  TJie  Nineteenth  Century,  March,  1883. 

Early  Spring. 
Appeared  in    The   YoutJi  s  Companion,   December 
13.1883. 

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TIRESIAS  AND  OTHER  POEMS,  i2,^s— Continued 

Freedom. 

Appeared  in  Macmillan  s  Magazine,  December, 
1884,  and  in  The  New  York  Independent  probably 
simultaneously. 

Epitaph  on  General  Gordon. 

Appeared  in  The  Times,  May  7,  1885. 

"Balin  and  Balan,"  one  of  the  new  poems  in  the 
volume,  was  actually  a  new  "  Idyll  of  the  King," 
though  not  so  called  in  this  first  edition.  It  was, 
however,  incorporated  with  the  other  Idylls  in  1888, 
being  inserted  between  "  Geraint  and  Enid "  and 
"  Merlin  and  Vivien." 

Note:  The  poem  "  To  H.  R.  H.  Princess  Beatrice,"  which 
appeared  in  The  Times  of  July  23,  1885,  the  day  of  the  marriage  of 
the  Princess  to  the  Prince  of  Battenberg,  was  printed  on  a  single 
quarto  sheet  dated  July,  1885,  According  to  Shepherd,  the  copy 
in  the  British  Museum  has  this  inscription  in  the  author's  hand- 
writing : 

"  F.  T.  Palgrave,  from  A.  Tennyson." 

The  poem  was  included  in  the  "  Tiresias  "  volume  published  later 
in  the  same  year. 

To  Ros  Rosartim,  a  volume  of  selections  from  the  poets,  edited 
by  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Boyle  ("E.  V.  B."),  Tennyson  contributed  the 
verses  beginning  : 

"  The  night  with  sudden  odour  reel'd." 

Though  never  collected  by  the  author  in  any  authorized  edition 
they  are  found  in  the  Memoir. 

The  poem  "  Opening  of  the  Indian  and  Colonial  Exhibition 
by  the  Queen,"  was  first  printed  for  official  purposes  as  a  single 
quarto  sheet,  four  pages.  It  was  first  published  in  The  Colonial  and 
Indian  Exhibition  Opening  Ceremonial,  May  4,  1886.  It  first 
appeared  in  book  form  in  Locksley  Hall  Sixty  Years  After ^  published 
later  in  the  same  year. 

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LOCKSLEY  HALL  SIXTY  YEARS 
AFTER,  Etc.  London,  1886.  i6mo, 
original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :    Half-title,  title,  dedication  and  Contents, 
pp.  i-vii ;  half-title  and  text  pp.  1-201  ;  imprint,  p.  202. 

Besides  the  poem,  "Opening  of  the  Indian  and 
Colonial  Exhibition  by  the  Queen,"  which  appeared 
in  various  newspapers,  only  one  of  the  poems  in 
this  volume  had  appeared  in  any  periodical.  "  The 
Fleet "  was  first  printed  in  TJie  Times  of  April  23, 
1885. 

The  play,  "  The  Promise  of  May,"  which  had  been 
privately  printed  for  the  use  of  the  actors  in  1882, 
is  here  first  published.  The  few  variations  between 
this  edition  and  that  of  1882  are  noted  in  pencil  in 
this  copy. 

CARMEN  S^CULARE.  AN  ODE.  Lon- 
don, Printed  for  Private  Distribution, 
1887.  i2mo,  original  printed  stiff  paper 
covers,  gilt  edges. 

Collation:    Half-title,  title  and  text,  pp.  1-15  ;  p.  16 
blank. 

This  was  a  "Jubilee  Ode"  written  in  honor  of 
Queen  Victoria.  It  was  published  in  JSIacviillan  s 
Magazine  for  April,  1887,  under  the  title  "Carmen 
Saeculare :  An  Ode  in  Honour  of  the  Jubilee  of 
Queen  Victoria."  The  magazine  issue  was  appar- 
ently an  earlier  text  as  there  are  several  points  of 
difference.     This  separate  reprint  was  unknown  to 

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CARMEN  S^ECULARE.     AN  ODE,  \^%-i— Continued 

Shepherd.     Mr.  Wise  states  that  only  twenty  copies 
were  printed. 

It  includes  one  evident  misprint : 

"  Make  it  really  gorgeous," 


CARMEN  SiECULARE 

AN  ODE 


ALFRED  TENNYSON,  D.C.L. 

foil  LaureaSt 


LONDON 
PRINTED  FOR  PRIVATE  DISTRIBUTION 


evidently  should  be,  as  it  is  in  Macmillan  s  Magazine 
and  the  current  editions, 

"Make  it  regally  gorgeous." 
When  included  in  the  "  Demeter  "  volume  in  1889 
the  title  of  the  poem  was  again  altered  to  "  On  the 
Jubilee  of  Queen  Victoria." 

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THE  THROSTLE.     London,  1889.     i6mo, 

red  levant  morocco,  by  Riviere. 

Collation :    Title,  imprint  and  text,  pp.  1-3 ;   page  4 
blank. 

'*  The  Throstle  "  was  published  in   The  New  York 
World  in  this  country,  and  in    TJie  Nezv  Review  in 


THE  THROSTLE 


ALFRED 
CORD    TENNVSON 


Hontion 

MACMILLAN    AND   CO. 

1889 


England,  in  October,  1889.  This  is  one  of  a  few 
copies  printed  for  the  purpose  of  securing  copyright 
in  England  and  perhaps  for  distribution  among  a  few 
friends.  The  poem  was  collected  in  the  "  Demeter" 
volume  in  the  same  year. 


WORKS   OF 


DEMETER      AND     OTHER     POEMS. 
London,  1889.     i6mo,  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation :   Half-title,  title  and  Contents,  pp.  i-vi ;  text, 
pp.  1-175. 

Besides  the  three  poems  named  above,  "On  the 
Jubilee  of  Queen  Victoria,"  "The  Throstle,"  and 
"  In  Memoriam  William  George  Ward,"  this  volume 
contains  only  a  single  poem  which  had  appeared  in 
periodical  form  previously.  This  is  the  poem  "  Vast- 
ness,"  which  was  printed  in  Macmillan  s  Magazine 
for  November,  1885. 

Note:  Six  lines  ''  In  Memoriam  William  George  Ward,"  appeared 
in  The  Atheticeum  of  May  li,  1889,  and  in  William  George  Ward 
and  the  Oxford  Movement,  published  later  in  the  same  year.  It  next 
appeared  in  the  "  Demeter  "  volume. 

"  CROSSING  THE  BAR"  AND  A  FEW 
OTHER     TRANSLATIONS.      By    H. 

M.  B.     Not  Published,   1890.     Small    4to, 
original  printed  paper  cover,  uncut. 

Collation  ;   Title,  p.  i ;  half-title,  with  verses.  Contents, 
Preface  and  text,  pp.  1-67  ;  imprint,  p.  68. 

A  series  of  translations  of  Tennyson's  poem, 
"  Crossing  the  Bar,"  with  others  of  Wordsworth, 
into  Latin  and  Greek.  Privately  printed  and  rare. 
This  copy  has  a  printed  slip  inserted :  "  With  the 
Translator's  Compliments." 

Note  :     Four  lines,  beginning  : 

"  We  lost  you  for  how  long  a  time," 
were  written  to  accompany   Pearl,   an   English  Poem  of  the  14th 
Century,''  published  in  1891.     They  were  never  reprinted  by  their 
author,  but  are  in  the  Memoir. 

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THE  FORESTERS,  ROBIN  HOOD 
AND  MAID  MARIAN.  London,  1892. 
i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation  :  Half-title,  title.  Dramatis  Personam  and  half- 
title,  pp.  i-vii;  text,  pp.  1-155. 
One  of  the  songs,  "To  Sleep,"  in  the  poem,  "The 
Foresters,"  had  appeared  in  TJie  New  Review  for 
March,  1891.  Another,  "The  National  Song,"  is  an 
adaptation  of  one  which  had  appeared  in  Poems 
Chiefly  Lyrical,  in  1830.  The  choruses  were  rewritten. 

THE  SILENT  VOICES.  London,  1892. 
i6mo,  polished  calf,  by  Riviere. 

Collation  :  Title,  and  text,  p.  1-4,  pages  2  and  4  both 
blank. 

This  poem  was  included  in  the  "  Death  of  CEnone  " 
volume,  which  was  passing  through  the  press  at  the 
time  of  Lord  Tennyson's  death,  in  October,  1892. 
A  few  copies  of  "The  Silent  Voices,"  which  was  to 
be  sung  at  the  funeral,  were  printed  separately  for 
the  purpose  of  securing  copyright.  It  was  also 
printed  in  the  two  programmes  next  described,  both 
of  these  antedating  the  publication  in  book  form. 

ORDER  OF  SERVICE  at  Lord  Tenny- 
son's Funeral,  October  12,  1892.  [Also] 
PROGRAMME  of  the  Memorial  Ser- 
vices Held  at  Westminster  Abbey,  Sun- 
day, October  16,  1892. 

Each  of  these  programmes  contains  the  poem 
"  The  Silent  Voices." 

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THE  DEATH  OF  CENONE,  AKBAR'S 
DREAM  AND  OTHER  POEMS.  Lon- 
DON,    1892.      i6mo,  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation ;    Half-title,  title,   and    Contents,   pp.  i-vi ; 
text,  pp.  i-iii. 

The  patriotic  poem,  "  The  War,"  which  had  ap- 


THE  SILENT  VOICES 


ALFRED 
I.ORU  TKNNYSON 


Honban 

MACMILLAN    AND   CO 

AND    MP.W    rOKK 
I  892 


peared  in  TJie  Times  of  May  9,  1859,  ^^  a  time  when 
war  seemed  imminent  between  England  and  France, 
is  here  first  reprinted  with  the  author's  authorization 
under  the  altered  title,  "  Riflemen,  Form  !  "  Shepherd 
had  included  it  in  his  pirated  volume  of  1870.     Only 


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THE  DEATH  OF  CENONE.  i9,q2~ Continued 

one  other  piece  in  the  volume,  besides  "The  Silent 
Voices,"  described  before,  had  previously  appeared. 
"  The  Death  of  the  Duke  of  Clarence  and  Avon- 
dale,"  appeared  in  the  Nineteenth  Century  for  Febru- 
ary, 1892.  There  was  also  a  large-paper  edition,  five 
hundred  copies,  which  contained  five  portraits  of 
Tennyson  not  in  the  ordinary  edition. 

POEMS  BY  TWO  BROTHERS.  Lon- 
don, 1893.      Royal  8vo,  cloth,  uncut. 

Collation :  Statement  of  number  printed,  half-title, 
title,  Preface,  etc.,  pp.  i-xix ;  text,  pp.  x-  251  ;  six  leaves 
of  facsimiles. 

This  is  one  of  three  hundred  copies  printed  on 
large  paper,  and  contains  ten  pages  of  facsimiles  not 
in  the  regular  edition.  The  major  part  of  the  book 
is  a  reprint  of  the  volume  printed  in  1827,  the  first  of 
our  list.  Included,  however,  are  four  poems,  printed 
for  the  first  time  from  the  original  manuscript : 

"  Come  hither,  canst  thou  tell  me  if  this  skull." 
The  Dying  Man  to  his  Friend. 
"  Unhappy  Man,  why  wander  there." 
Written  During  the  Convulsions  in  Spain. 

ALFRED,  LORD  TENNYSON.  A  Me- 
moir. By  His  Son.  London,  1897.  2  vols. 
Royal  8vo,  cloth,  uncut. 

These  volumes  contain  many  poems,  prose  pas- 
sages, and  letters,  here  first  printed. 

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RIFLE-CLUBS.  Written  in  1859.  Now 
FOR  THE  First  Time  Printed.  New  York, 
1899.     4to,  parchment,  uncut. 

Collation :  Half-title,  statement  of  number  printed, 
title,  Note ;  half-title  and  text,  pp.  i-xix.  With  four 
leaves  of  facsimiles. 

The  copy  is  No.  3  of  seventeen  copies  only  printed 
at  the  Marion  Press  from  the  original  manuscript. 
Of  these  seventeen,  two  went  for  copyright.  The 
poem  is  an  earlier  version  of  "  The  War,"  which  ap- 
peared in  TJie  London  Times  of  May  9,  1859.  The 
manuscript  from  which  this  is  printed  was  sent  to 
Mr.  Coventry  Patmore.     It  contains  this  note  : 

"  Very  wild,  but  I  think  too  savage !  written  in  about  two 
minutes !  The  authorship  a  most  deep  secret !   mind,  Mr.  P. !  " 


TENNYSONIANA 

The  most  interesting  item  of  Tennysoniana  in- 
cluded in  the  set  is  a  little  book  with  the  title : 

Epilogue  /  to  /  Shakespeare's  Comedy  /  of  /  "  Much  Ado 
About  Nothing  :  "  /  Performed  Friday,  19th  March,  1830,  /  And 
printed  at  the  request  of  the  Performers.  /  Cambridge,  /  Printed 
by  James  Hodson,  Trinity-Street.  /  1830. 

The  little  book  is  made  up  of  eight  pages,  the  last 
blank.  A  "  Cast  of  the  Characters  "  is  on  the  back 
of  the  titles.  Its  connection  with  Tennyson  is  best 
explained  by  the  following  extract  from  the  Memoir, 
Vol.  I,  p.  48  : 

"  The  brothers  Charles  and  Alfred  would  humorously  des- 
cribe how  '  Much  Ado  About  Nothing '  was  played  by  their 

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TENNYSONIANA— a7«//«w(/ 

friends  in  March,  1 830.  Kemble  as  Dogberry,  Hallam  as  Verges, 
Milnes  as  Beatrice.  When  Beatrice  sat  down,  her  weight  was 
such  that  she  crashed  through  the  couch,  and  sank  on  the  floor, 
nothing  to  be  seen  but  a  heap  of  petticoats,  much  to  the  discom- 
fiture of  the  players  and  the  immeasurable  laughter  of  the  spec- 
tators. The  incident  used  to  remind  my  father  by  contrast  of 
Kemble's  observation  to  someone  who  was  playing  the  part  of 
Falstaff, '  Pooh,  you  should  see  my  sister  :  she  does  Falstaff  bet- 
ter than  any  man  living.'  My  father,  I  may  add,  was  famous  in 
some  parts  of  Shakespeare,  especially  in  Malvolio." 

The  following  is  a  short  list  of  the  other  Tenny- 
soniana  included  in  the  set : 

Anti-Maud.  By  a  Poet  of  the  People.  Second  Edition, 
enlarged.     London,  1856. 

Tennyson's  "  Maud  "  Vindicated.  By  R.  J.  Mann.  Lon- 
don, n.  d. 

An  Index  to  In  Memoriam.     London,  1862. 

Alfred  Tennyson  ;  A  Lecture.  By  Henry  Edward  Watts. 
Melbourne,  1864. 

A  Study  of  the  Works  of  Alfred  Tennyson.  By  Edward 
Campbell  Tainsh.     London,  1868. 

Studies  in  the  Idylls.     By  Henr>'  Elsdale.     London,  1878. 

Lecture  on  Tennyson.     By  Edith  Herand.     London,  1878. 

A  Key  to  Tennyson's  "In  Memoriam."  By  Alfred  Gatty. 
Sheffield,  1879. 

Atheism  and  Suicide.  A  Reply  to  Alfred  Tennyson.  By 
G.  W.  Foote.    [London,  1881.] 

Tennyson.     A  Lecture  by  T,  W.  Chignell.     Exeter,  1881. 

Mr.  Tennyson's  "  Despair."  A  Lecture  by  Thomas  Walker. 
London,  1882. 

The  Earlier  and  Less-known  Poems  of  Tennyson.  An  Ad- 
dress by  C.  E.  Mathews.     London,  1883. 

Tennyson's  In  Memoriam.  A  Study.  By  John  F.  Genung. 
London,  1884. 

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ALFRED,   LORD   TENNYSON 

TENNYSONIANA— Co«//««.'./ 

A  Companion  to  In  Memoriam.  By  Elizabeth  Rachel  Chap- 
man.    London,  1888. 

Tennyson's  "  Queen  Mary."  A  Criticism.  By  G.  M.  Brody. 
Edinburgh,  n.  d. 

Vox  Clamantis !  The  Poet  Laureate,  By  Eric  Mackay. 
London,  n.  d. 

The  Poetry  of  Tennyson.  By  Henry  van  Dyke.  London, 
1890, 

Lord  Tennyson  and  the  Bible.  By  George  Lester.  Lon- 
don, [1891.] 

Tennyson's  Life  and  Poetry.  By  Eugene  Parsons.  [Chi- 
cago, 1892.] 

Tennyson  and  "  In  Memoriam."  By  Joseph  Jacobs.  Lon- 
don, 1892. 

A  Sermon  Preached  in  the  Chapel  of  Trinity  College.  By 
H.  Montagu  Butler.     Cambridge,  1892. 

New  Studies   in  Tennyson.     By  Morton   Luce.     London, 

[1893.] 
Tennyson  as  a  Thinker.    By  Henry  S.  Salt.    London,  1893. 
Bibliography  of  Tennyson.    By  R.  H.  Shepherd.     Large 

Paper.    London,  1896. 


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